HE,DGUARTERS JOINT T..SK FORCE SEVEN APO 187 (HOW), ¢/o Postmastor San Francisco, California SPECIAL BULLETIN 19 February 1954 _ SiFETY INSTRUCTIONS 1. The following information must be passed to cach persona who will be in the Pacific Proving Ground om Del of any shot. 2. Am atomic explosion wild take place at the Pacific Proving Ground at a location, date and time to Se announced separttely. It is possible that the shot may be delayed cor re-schoduled for ancther day. The safcty inatructions in this bulletin will apoly regardless of tho exact firing time. The siren signals indicatod below will be used on °.nt Island. Similar audible signals will be scunded on ENTHNETOX Island and aboard ships of the task force, In the event of failure of siren warning signals anc the time-count, it will nevertheless be assumed that the shot will take picce as scheduled unless otherwise notifiod. 3. For all shots, two categori:.s of personnel are defined for innabi- tante of other then the sot atoll: 8 Cetegéry I: Individuals who cxpect to entcr radioactively contaminated areas on subsequént events of this series, or cersomel whose current rediation dascge exceeds j.5Sr. b, Category IZ: Individuals who normally will not be expected to enter radicactively contaminated ereas on future events of this series pro= vided their raciation dosage is less then 3.5r. 4. BEFORE THE SHOT. 2. minus all persons on or in the vicinity of the snot atoll will b- <wake bofore the shot until +fter tho shot. Long slevve shirts and long pants are not necosssry for pro= tection against thermal raiiation. Personnel remaining on SIXINT islands during BIKINI shots will stay inside the bunker iuntil after the shock wave has passed Be St » COUNT DOWN 5 (Direct corgmnication or In the event of siren failuro, fire ongine whistle will be used. Porsomnel on, or near, the shot count-down will be asintained atoll will not climb builiings or other structures to observe tne with occupied lend sitos of BIXINT atoll for shot at this location.) shot. Gusts of wind aro expected at cecupied sites of thc shot ato. exercise normal precautions to s4- cure light objects nearby. | |