4.5.2
GREENHOUSE Test Operations.
The Navy had provided most of the personnel for the earlier Pacific
nuclear test series.
It contributed the largest number to GREENHOUSE, too,
but the Army and Air Force were also well represented, as the following
numbers show (7: 1):
Organization
Estimated Number
of Participants
Army
1,500
Navy
2,900
Air Force
2,550
Marine Corps
80
Civilian DOD Participants
Total
560
t
7,590
Participants supported the eight GREENHOUSE scientific programs, which
consisted of projects recommended by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), and the Atomic Energy Commission.
programs were of three types:
The
those dealing with the chemistry and physics of
atomic explosions; those dealing with the effects of such explosions on the
natural environment, on man-made objects, and on various plants and animals;
and those designed to help develop means to detect nuclear detonations at
great distances so that U.S. authorities could monitor nuclear developments in
other countries (7: 130).
4.5.3
Dose Summary for Operation GREENHOUSE.
The maximum permissible dose for Operation GREENHOUSE participants was
0.1 rem of gamma radiation per day (0.7 rem per week), not to exceed a total
of 3.9 rem for 13 weeks.
A total of up to 3.0 rem on any one day could be
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