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cial Briefing on Fallout Program for Operation HARDTACK
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general Starbird comnmentec on the Commisaion's decision
at Meeting 1275 on April 9,
1957,
that a prin objective in
Operation HARDTACK is the accurate establishment of locai
fallout in ordanr that the world-wide contribution can be
accurately calculated by difference.
He said that in response
to the Commissioners! request at that time th:t they review in
September, 1957, the plans for a fallout progzam for Operation
HARUTACK, a special briefing had been scheduled to inform the
Commission of tentative plans for this program,
General Starbird
added that in particular, guidance is needed from the Commission
on that phase of the program requiring ships which the Department
of the Navy now plans to place in the reserve fleet on July 31,
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Mr, Graves explained that while reasonable estimates of
total fallout can be made for each shot,
consideration is being
given to five experiments which would provide more accurate
information on falleut in local and intermediate areas, and also
world-wide fallout,
With respect to the
first experiment to be conducted in
connection with the two high altitude shots, Mr, Graves said
vaat valuable information on the over~all fallout pattern from
these shots would be obtained by adding thalium to the weapons
to serve as a sadioactive tracer,
Mr, Strauss auestioned
whether thig radioactive tracer might not mix with fallout
from previous shots of the U,S,
of ather countries,
commented oviefiy on the plans for this experiment,
Mr. Graves
indicating
vnat the situation suggested by Mr, Strauss was not likely.
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