TAB A
BLACKFOOT EVENT
OPERATION REDWING

1, BLACKFOOT device was fired at 0626M, 12 June 1956 on a 200~
cot tower lecated on the northern tip of RUNIT Island (YVONNE) of
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ee toll.
2.

The fallout forecast for BLACKFOOT was based on an expected

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The forecast indicated a light fallout pattern

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The forecast was verified

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te post~shot radiological surveys.
5.

The initial cloud moved to the West.

Cloud tracking aircraft

vecavts varified the forecast cloud movement.

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Based on the results of initial radiological survey of the

<ioll, reentry hour was arnounsed as 0830M, 12 June 1956,

5.

Monitoring stations and aerial surveys showed no detectable in-

sigase in activity at other than the ENIWETOK Lagoon area.

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