IV
Chart:
Shots for UPSHOT/KNOTHOLE
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Shot
Date
ANNIE
17 March 1953
NANCY
2h March 1953
RUTH
31 March 1953
300-foot
DIXIE
- 6 April 1953
Air drop
RAY
11 April 1953
100-foot
BADGER
18 April 1953
300-foot
tower
SIMON
25 April “1983
300-foot
tower
ENCORE
8 May 1953 ©
Type
HARRY
19 May 1953
GRABLE
25 May 1953
CLIMAX
June 1953
300=-foot
tower
300-foot
tower
tower
tower
2,20 feet
(
air drop
200~foot
tower
500 feet
in air
“Air drop
Even with two groups of sampler pilots, the radiation dosages were
carefully calculated, based on the aircraft entering the cloud approximately two hours -after detonation, on the predicted yield ofthe device,
on a speed of 250 miles an hour, and upon clean aircraft,!> Sampling
officials took three major steps to reduce exposure.
During the first
mission, ANNIE Shot, the soundness of clean aircraft was clearly
demonstrated,
About half the exposure was absorbed between the last
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