GLOSSARY OF TERMS
AACS
Airways and Air Communications Service
ADG
Air Defense Command
Atomic Energy Commission
Air Force Flight Test Center
AFSWC
Air Force Special Weapons Center
AOC
Air Operations Center
ARDC
Air Research and Development. Command
ATG
Air
CASTLE
Spring 1954 overseas nuclear and thermonuclear
Task Group
tests at the Pacific Proving Ground
cIC
DCS
Deputy Chief of Staff
FEAF
Far East Air Force
GCA
GCI
GREENHOUSE
Combat Information Center
Ground Controlled Approach
Ground Control Interception
Spring 1951 overseas nuclear tests in the Pacific
High Frequency
IBDA
Indirect Bomb Damage Assessment
Identification Friend or Foe
Fall 1952 overseas nuclear tests in the Pacific
Joint Task Force
kt
LABB-6
arwc/Ho
Kilotons
(Los Alamos bomb bay sampling device for B-36)
A device for cloud sampling by which particles of
the cloud are taken through a filter so that they
adhere to a type of paper and let the gasses escape
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