CHAPTER I
OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES
1.
The measurement of the ratio of the fission yield to total yield will
require several distinct operations.
This handbook provides the basis for a
division of labor which the Observers may find suitable.
The demonstration
and discussion of the measurement techniques at Berkeley will also provide
a further basis for selecting different tasks for small groups of Observers.
2.
The first contact between the Observers and the Pinon Test Offi-
cials will take place in Berkeley.
Several days will be devoted to briefing
the Observers on the measurement techniques.
A thorough demonstration
of the high-speed camera used to photograph the fireball will be given.
The
method of operating the comparator which measures the fireball 1mage on
the photographic film will be explained.
An actual chemical analysis of
radioactive materials will be done in order to make clear the method of
determining the fission yield of the bomb.
3.
At the end of the briefing sessions in Berkeley, the Observers will
be transported by aircraft to Honolulu.
Ata time dependent on the comple-
tion of the regular test series at Eniwetok Atoll, the Observers will be trans-
ported by military aircraft to the Test Site at Eniwetok.
The program at
Eniwetok will deal only with those facilities that are required for staging
the explosion, for measuring the fireball, and for obtaining radio-chemical
samples.
The device will be detonated on a barge moored in the lagoon on.
the northern side of Eniwetok Atoll.
The fireball photographs will be made
with cameras mounted on a 300-foot tower on Parry Island.
The radio-
chemical samples will be collected on filters carried by aircraft through
the cloud resulting from the explosion.
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The Observers may freely inspect the barge containing the bomb
and the site on which the barge will be located.
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The container with the bomb
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Security measures prevent the
inspection of any part of the device inside its container.
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the Observers will not be given a sample of the radiochemical tracer.
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