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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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