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NOTES

1.

DF, Ch., Human Factors Div., AFSWC, to DCS/Ops. 7.4, 21 Aug. 1953,

2,

AFSWC TN-56-30, "Evaluation of Some Factors Influencing Radiation

subj,: Comments on Briefing, in Hist. Div, files, Sampling,

Dosage from Penetration of an Atomic Cloud by Manned Aircraft,"

prep. by Col. Ernest A, Pinson, Capt, Paul M. Crumley, and lst
Lt, William J. Nicholson, Jr., Blophysics Div,, Rsch, Dir., June
1956,

The reader is referred to the following additional studies

conducted by Air Force personnel: P.M. Crumley, J. L. Dick, K. C,
Kaericher, and J. W. Nicholson, Jr., Contact Radiation Hazards
Associated with Contaminated Aircraft, Operation TEAPOT, Project
'2.0a, Wash, 25, D.C.: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, May
19553; Wright H. Langham, P, M. Crumley, E. A. Pinso, E. C. Anderson,
and P, S, Harris, The Radiation Hazards to Personnel Within an Atomic

Cloud, Operation UPSHOT/KNOTHOLE, Project4.1, WI-7l3, Wash.25, D.C.:
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, December 1953, The Navy
published a report used widely, J. D. Teresi, Radiation Hazards to

Aircrews Exposed to the Atomic Cloud of an Atomic BombDetonation,

San Francisco, Calif., U. S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory,
10 December 1952, in Tech, Info, and Intel, Lib.s H. D, Landahl,
Calculations of the Hazard Involved in Passage Through a Radioactive
Cloud Resulting from a Nominal Atomic Bomb, University of Chicago,

USAFRadiation Laboratory, Quarterly Progress Report No. 1, 1951.
3.

lh.

“Evaluation of Some Factors Influencing Radiation Dosage from
Penetration of an Atomic Cloud by Manned Aircraft," 1-2,

Ltr., Col. William B, Kieffer, Dep. Cmdr., AFSW, to K. F, Hertford,

Mer., ALOO, 21 Mar. 1957, n.s., see App.;

rpt. "Rad-Safe Experience

on Past Tests," (Col, Kieffer), n.d., see App.

5.

Ltr., Dr. Harold F, Plank, Asst. Gp. Ldr., J-11, LASL, to Cmdr.,
Lo50th TG (N), 10 Oct, 1956, n.s., in Hist. Div, files, Sampling,

6,

lLtr., Col. Kieffer to Hertford, 21 Mar. 1957.

7. DF, Col, Karl H, Houghton, Actg. Dep. CofS for R&D, to DCS/0, AFSWC,

29 July 1954, subj.: Special Services for Sampling Aircraft, in DCS/O
files,

em

8. SOP #SWSS-7-7, Decontamination of Aircraft, prep. by 950th TG (N),
in Hist. Div. files, Sampling.

9.

Ltr., Col. Pinson, Ch., Biophysics Div., Rsch, Dir., to CO, USN Rad,

Def, Lab., Attn,, Mr. Robert J. Crew, 27 Feb. 1957, subj.:
Decontamination of Aircraft, see App.

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