HEADQUARTERS
JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN
APO 187 (HOW) c/o POSTMASTER
SAN FRANCISCC, CALIFORNIA
403/72903
SUBJECT:
18 March 1954
Radiological Surveys of Several Marshall Island Atolls
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Attached herewith for ydur information and retention are ccpies of
radiological surveys made on certain Marshall [sland Atells.
The surveys
were conducted as a result of contamination deposited on the affected atolis
by BRAVO Shot, Operation CASTLE, fired from a reef approximately one and one
half nautical alles southwest of Nam, Blicini Atoll,
1845 Zebra, 28 February 1954.
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“ater and soil samples were shipped to the Health and Safety Labor -
tory, New York Operations Office,
Merrill Elsenbud)
for analysis.
Atomic Energy Commission (Attention: Lr,
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