on™ have been and still are available for emergency civil defense needs in the areas where they are located. As the local civil defense monitoring teams arc organized, we hope that these AEC teams can be reserved for the AEC's own cmergency usec, "The preparation and publication, jointly, with the Department of Defense, of the propulsive value, offects of atomic weapons, with which you are doubtless familiar. Despite recent advances in weapons development, this volume continues to be qualitatively accurate in most significant respects and remains the most valuable single source of information on weapons aspects. We will, of course, revise this publication from time to time as the new knowledge lcarned in our weapons test programs become available. But for present purposes, it provides a very sound basis for civil defense planning. "The participation of Commission people as consultants and advisers in the civil defense exercises held in Wishington, Seattle and Chicago in 1950, under the sponsorship of the National security Resourccs Board. "The development in cooperation with the Civil Jefense «administration of cmersyency exposure for food and water. "Preparation for the non-seerct bibliography, for the NSRB. This comprehcusive List of publications on mattcrs related to civil defense cont<ins more than 400 titles. "The loan from our emergency stockpile of radiction detection instruments and radiation sources to state and local civil defense organizations for training purposes, To date instruments have been loaned by vorious AEC instellations to 24 civil jlefense organizations, in 22 states, and radiation seurces have been loancd to 21 organizations in 19 states. "The arrangescnt whereby 25 qualified technical people from the FCDa, cleared for access to secret informetion, participated in the list series—of atomic weapons tests in Nevada--this would be BusterJangle last fall~-as working observers and radiation safety technicians." 5) a -~ 10 -