- Air Force participation in the air-to-air rocket experiment will include firing of the rocket from a manned aircraft, as well as support by innumerable types of aircraft from various Air Force commands, \ “ Support activities include pre-shot weather missions, documentary aerial photography, radiological surveys, cloud sampling, cloud tracking, and air control. These activities are carried out by aircraft of the Air Research and Development Command, Tactical ’ Air Command, Strategic Air Command, Air Training Command, and the Air Pictorial Charting Service. Training activities include flights through the nuclear cloud by the Air National Guard and Air Defense Command for crew familiarization with aerial effects of atcmic detcnations, The majority of these aircraft stage out of Indian Springs Air Force Base, Nevada, a unit of the Air Force Speciai Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The Special Weapons Center, commanded by Brigadier General William M. Canterbury, is one of ten semvers under the Air Research and Development Command, and has supported the AEC in both continental and overseas tests since Cperation Crossroads in 1945. 13, CIVIL EFFECTS EXPERIMENTS Civil Effects Organization The Civil Effects Test Group of the Nevada Test Organization is sponsored principally by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Civil Defense Administration, but other Governnent agencies, some private industrial groups, and twe foreign rations have projects in its program. The scientific and technical studies are comprised of ten programs, 54 projects, and about 200 shot particzipations involving individual experiments, and require at NTS a peak pcpulation of about 400 scientific and staff personnel. All projects are reviewed by appropriate scientific and technical test screening and planning committees before acceptance for field testing, and are coordinated with the military effects tests. The Civil Effecjs Program stems from a continuing need for upto-date information on the effects from weapcns as they are develcped. Continental test afford unusually good cpportunities to verify in the field various theore*ical concepts and Laboratory programs which are directed toward complete knowledge of the possible effects of nuclear detonations on man. Posin. ~ 64 =