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Following the mission, Colonel Fackler discussed the experiment
with Colonel Cody, assistant rad-safe officer for the operation,
This
incident, plus the film badge experiments he had conducted, gave Colonel
Cody the idea that manned sampler aircraft, operating several hours after
a nuclear detonation, might possibly obtain samples mich more efficiently
than measures used heretofore. With drones, the "beeper" pilot aimed
the aircraft toward the atomic cloud and the sample was obtained by pot-
luck, A mamed sampler could be maneuvered while approaching the cloud,
and during penetration so that the most likely parts ofthe cloud could
be sampled,
In this way a greater precision in sample size and location
was rendered, allowing study of fractioation in greater detail among
various portions of the cloud,
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