nee 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./ Le “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, stemotane ‘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, | 5 = Appendix "E" 4.