LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: Observers watching the detonation of WASP, 18 February 1955, at a location about 15 kilometers from ground zero. Figure 1 2 Page Organization of NTPR within DNA from 1982 to 1986 ....... Letter sent to the Second Marine Division Association 10 as part of the MCNTPR Outreach Program. ........4.6-. 44 3. Selected DOE screening criteria for CIC document collection . 55 4 VA medical care available to eligible veterans of U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing and the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan ..... 57 The Pacific Proving Ground. 68 The Nevada Test Site. é9 Shot BAKER emerging amidst the unmanned target fleet, ee wh we et tw 75 AEC handbill announcing the beginning of the RANGER tests . 82 Troops advancing into the test area behind a radiological safety monitor on 2 May 1952, one day after the detonation of DOG. 93 25 July 1946. . 1. 1 6 ww we we 95 10 Shot MIKE, 1 November 1952. ......+46-. 11 Shot GRABLE, only test of the 280mm atomic artillery shell, 25 May 1953... . . . . . 99 12 Exercise Desert Rock V troops being briefed on the characteristics and effects of nuclear detonations before the Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE tests . 13 Shot BRAVO, 1 March 1954. . . . 2. 1. 2 ee ew we ew 104 14 Exercise Desert Rock VI troops observing the detonation of ESS, 23 March 1955 . 1 ww ww ee we te th te th wh et we ww 15 Observers facing away from the detonation of ERIE, 31 May 1956. 16 SWORDFISH spray dome with USS Agerholm (DD-826) i4 n the foreground, 11 May 1962... . xi 101 . 107 113 131