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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
COORDINATION AND INFORMATION CENTER
Purpose

The purpose of the Coordination and Information Center is to:
Collect and consolidate, for long term preservation, all historical

documents, records, and data dealing with offsite radioactive fallout
from all U.S. testing of nuclear devices

Provide resources and methods for identification and retrieval of

documents based on subject and content

Allow access to the collected documents by all interested parties,
including the general public.

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Scope

The CIC, as a publicly accessible facility, contains only unclassified
documents.

Many formerly classified documents have been declassified or

sanitized and are included in the CIC collection.

There are no classified

documents available at or through the CIC.
The scope of the collection includes:
Data and documentation on the detection and measurement of radioactive
fallout and related factors resulting from nuclear device test
activities at the Nevada Test Site, the TRINITY event, the Pacific

Proving Grounds, and other on-continent test locations

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Policy documents dealing with procedures and conduct of tests and with
public safety considerations and actions
Published and primary sources describing the development and stateof-knowledge of the health effects of radiation
Documents dealing with public information as disseminated through such
media as pamphlets, news releases, and news publications
Related studies and reports produced by the scientific and technical

field.

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