of this equipment was 0.1 R/hr.

Additionally, the Air Force established

monitoring stations at Oahu, Guam, Luzon, Tokyo, Okinawa, Shemya, and
Anchorage where gamma intensity readings were planned at 12-hour intervals
using a 2610A portable survey meter.

HASL also established a worldwide network of 122 stations that used
gummed film to trap fallout particles for subsequent analyses.

The U.S.

Weather Bureau operated 39 of the stations in the continental United

States and 14 at overseas locations; the Air Weather Service operated 23
overseas stations; the State Department operated 31; 3 were operated by
the Navy and Coast Guard; and 2 were operated by the Atomic Bomb Casualty
Commission.

The Canadian Meteorological Service cooperated by operating 9

stations, and the Canadian Atomic Energy Commission operated 1 station.
All stations were scheduled to make two simultaneous 24-hour gummed-film
collections starting at 1230

(GMT)

each day.

In addition, single gummed-film stands were installed on most ships of
the Military Sea Transportation Service
in the Pacific Ocean.

(MSTS)

scheduled to be on routes

The ship collections were made daily

(Reference 27).

Command Briefings
The decision to detonate a particular test device was made at a series
of command briefings beginning at H-36 hours.
was critical to the shot, no-shot decisions.

Pallout exposure evaluation
The evaluations were pre-

sented by a senior representative of the Radsafe Office.

The radsafe

briefing included:

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Forecast winds for H~hour, hodographs, and resultant

wind diagrams.
For each briefing, hodographs were
constructed with the latest wind information in order
to show the development of the wind pattern.

Surface radex areas, limiting bearings, radial dis-

tances, hot area, cool area, and long-range fallout
plot.
The surface radex area was drawn using the
hodograph for forecast H-hour winds.
A 15° sector
was added to each limiting bearing.
A representative
radial distance was indicated for a 6-hour fallout
period.
A hot and a cool area were indicated.
The

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