affected the B-36 samplers.
The upper cloud lay far to the vest, while
the cloud below 50,000 feet lay within the cirrus to the south-east of
These aircraft had to sample below their maximm altitude
capability at positions where the presence of the bomb cloud could only
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be inferred by. the detection of gamma radiation in flying above the
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zero point.
cirrus. While sampling in the cirrus, they were unable to distinguish
collection results appear to indicate that mch of the radiation in-
tensity seen could be attributed to cloud shine,
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Although it reported that the bomb cloud was completely obscured
by alto-cumulus and alto-stratus clouds at altitudes in the neighborhood
of 25,000 feet, the "fractionation sampler" (WB-29, Wilson 1) was the
most successful of the sampling aircraft on this "all-weather" mission.
Blessed by almost light and variable winis between 20,000 and 30,000
feet, it very systematically searched on instruments for areas of gemma
radiation to the north of zero point and was able to collect a normal
sacple,
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The sample collection results for ve BBE«000 are shown
in Table 11.2-1.
tacparison.
The samples collected on the ieeeeeO0t are given for
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Inspection of this table immediately reveals that with the
exception of Wilson 1, the samples co
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altitudes or whether they were flying through primary cloud. Their
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whether they were flying in radiation shins from cloud at yet lower