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4h,

ERDA's SUGGESTED RESPONSE AND/OR COMMENTS (Continued)
3d sentence - deny, insofar as it alleges shot ''Bravo"’
was dropped from an airplane.

It was a ground shot.

th sentence - admit.
5th sentence - ERDA admits that some land was destroyed
but denies that an additional pass from the ocean to

the lagoon was excavated.

NOTE:

The foregoing

sentence is unclassified, and similar language should
be used.

All reports which go into much greater detail,

insofar as we are presently aware, are classified.
There seems to be no need to raise any classification
Issue.
6th sentence - admit.
7th sentence admit.

4S

Ist sentence - admit.
2d sentence - deny.

In absence of references to quantity,

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cannot admit to ''very dangerous" effect.
3d sentence - Admit that the named radionuclides were

among those introduced into the Bikini environment

by testing.

DOE ARCHIVES

kth sentence - Admit, since literally true, but be
aware that many of these radionuclides have decayed

to point where no longer detectable.

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