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CHRONOLOGY OF ESTABLISH ENT OF DANGER AREA AROUND
PACIFIC PROVING GROUNDS
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The first Commission action on record in DMA files to establi
a closed area aroynd the Pacific Proving Grounds took place on
December 2, 1947 when the State Department notified the United
Nations t at Eniwetok Atoll and its terflgorial weters were
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23, 1947 rqquesting thata
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f aval operations, the AEC requested
ished around finiwetok Atoll bounded
451 north latitude and the meridians
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Obo rdfnating Committee on December
bimilar danger zone for aircraft be
re is no record indicating on what
basis the patent of the dahger area = determinede
On Decexbet 17, 1948, Carroll Wilson approved the idea of continuing indefinitely the danger area established in 1947 (Enclosure
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area and danger area previously established (Enclosure 5).
State Department raised no objection,
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On Decexber 15, 19h8, by
memorandum, the AEC requested the CNO (Enclosure 6) and the dir
Coordinating Committee (Emlosure 7) to post the necessary notices
to mariners and warnings to airmen to the effect that the closed
area and danger area would remain in effect for an indefinite
period,
The danger area which was established in 1947 and which wes per-
petuated in 1948 for an indefinite period as outlined above was
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the danger area wiich was in effect during the last full-scale
overseas atomic test operation (IVY, November 1952) which
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