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of coming out of Redwing with essentially no
more information about fallout, quantitative
information on fallout than we obtained dur=
ing the one land burst, during Castle and the
only way we got that information was that some
people happened to be under it and a Japanese
fishing boat happened to be in the wrong place,
thie is despite the fact that there has been a
great deal of emphasis placed on the need for
better fallout information,
AFSWAP hag a really eplendid program
designed into it; everything that needs to be
done in order to get information and the only
problem is they are fot going to have the right
kind of shot,
Basically the trouble is that when
this program was conceived -- this is my own
opinion, but I do want to make this point.
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Many of you remember that the fall~
out studies used to be a nuisance,
You can
carry them on, but you must not get in any-
body's way.
You took what thinge you could
get, you took whatever shot they happened to
want to get off and accepted the condition of
firing which was determined by somebody else
as criteria,