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1. Attached herewith for your information and retention are copies of
radiological surveys made on certain Marshall Island Atolls. The surveys
were conducted as a result of contamination deposited on the affected atolls
by BRAW® Shot, Operation CASTLE, fired from a reef approximately one and one
half nautical miles southwest of Nam, tHkini Atoll.

1845 Zebra, 2& February 1954.
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