Dr. John N, wolfe 1956 3 April 19, 1963 EniwetokSurvey: Flans were made for a more elaborate examination of the environmental problems, but the pressure of the Korean war forced cancellation of Navy support after program arrangements had been completed by the Laboratory in response to AEC request. 1951 _QperationRanger: Four members of the Laboratory staff were sent to the Nevada Proving Ground to work with monitoring staffs there. 1982 OpexyationIvy: The Laboratory team, at the request of the Commiesion, conducted biological studies at Eniwetok before and after test Mike, the first thermonuclear detonation. 1954 OperationCastile: Because nuclear test programs in the Pacific had come to be expectable parts of the Laboratory's effort, elaborate preparationa were made in 1954 for biological studies to be conducted before and after a thermonuclear test shot scheduled at Bikini on March 1. The erratic fallout from this shot, which seriously contaminated Rongelap Atoll, immediately involved the Laboratory in emergency monitoring conducted at the expense of the projected studies and led to a series of subsequent evaluations which continued periodically for almost three years. withJapnes: The 1954 fallout, political and economic balances. In consequence, by contaminating a Japanese fishing vessel in the vicinity of Rongelap, induced a “tuna panic" in Japan and led to serious disruption of the Japanese the Director of the Laboratory was one of two pers0ns sent to Japan at the express requeat of the State Department and the Atomic Energy Commission to consult with the Japanese, to evaluate the Japanese problem, and to represent the United States in a tense international situation. 1955 FirstOceanSurvey: The Japanese, anxious to deter- mine the extent of contamination from United States tests, conducted an ocean survey westward from the