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plan to fire these safety shots in Nevada during November or
December of 1957.
No significant nuclear, reaction is expected
from the firings and no hazard offsite./
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“I request your authority to expend this material
* for the purpose described,
7. The AEC is making every effort to insure that the
fission yield of the series and the offsite fallout 1s held to
the minimum,
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‘The Sontribuéton to worldwide fallout from these 23 firings would
be slightly greater than from REDWING, but less than half of
that from
CASTLE,
This increase of worldwide contribution
over that of REDWING results from the fact that two of the high
altitude effects shots must be of the standard rather than the
"clean" design, and the fact that at this altitude all of the
fission yield is presumably deposited worldwide, |
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Appendix "E"
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