FOREWORD

This report has had classified material removed in order to
make the information available on an unclassified, open

publication basis, to any interested parties.

This effort to

dec}assify this report has been accomplished specifically to
Support the Department of Defense Nuclear Test Personnel Review
(NTPR) P rogram. The objective is to facilitate studies of the
Tow levels of radiation received by some individuals during the
atmospheric. nuclear test program by making as much information
as possible. ‘available to all interested parties.

The material which has been deleted is all currently

classified as Restricted Data or Formerly Restricted Data under
the provision of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, (as amended) or

is National Security Information.

This report has been reproduced directly from available

copies of the originalmaterial. The locations from which
material has been deleted is generally obvious by the spacings
and “holes in the text. Thus the context of the material
deleted is identified to assist the reader in the determination
of whether the deleted inf ormation is germane to his study.
It is the belief of the ‘individuals who have participated

in preparing this report by delet ing the classified material
and of the Defense Nuclear Agencythat the report accurately
portrays the contents of the original! and that the deleted
material is of little or no significance to studies into the
amounts or types of radiation received by any individuals
during the atmospheric nuclear test program,

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