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Operation REDWING - Project 2.63,
Characterization of Fallout
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T. Triffet, Project Officer
P, D. LaRiviere

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US Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory
San Francisco, California
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Headquarters, Field Command

Defense Atomic Support Agency
Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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March 15, 1961

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This report has had the classified information removed and has been republished
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Operation REDWING
Fallout
Surface Radiation

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The

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obtain data sufficient to characterize the fallout, interpret the aerial and oceanographic survey results, and check fallout-model theory for Shots Cherokee, Zuni,

Flathead, Navajo, and Tewa during Operation REDWING.

out buildup were planned.

Detailed measurements of fall-

Measurements of radiation characteristics and physical,

chemical, and radiochemical properties of individual solid and slurry particles and
total cloud and fallout samples were also planned, along with determinations of the

surface densities of activity and environmental components in the fallout at each
major station.
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