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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1956
JTF-7 COMMANDER MAKES
PRELIMINARY REPORTS TO DOD AND AEC
Rear Admiral B. Hall Hanlon, Commander, Joint
Task Force Seven, has returned from the Marshall Islands
following the recent conclusion of the R#DWING test
series,
and has made preliminary reports of the tests to
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and Chairman
Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Admiral Hanlon reported that the programmed
number of tests was made of nuclear devices ranging
widely in yield, some in the kiloton and some in the
megaton range, and that the energy released by each of
the devices fell within the range of estimates made
prior to firing.
Admiral Hanlon reaffirmed that the
energy yield of the largest was substantially less
than that of the largest device detonated in the
CASTLE test series of 1954.
Following the firing of the concluding
detonations, light fallout occurred on parts of
Eniwetok Atoll occupied by the Joint Task Force.
The fallout did not necessitate evacuation of personnel
and no special protective measures were required.
Secretary “iilson and Chairman Strauss expressed to Admiral Hanlon their gratification at the
splendid work done by the Task Force, composed of the
three armed services, scientists and other civilian
personnel in the AES program, and by the laboratories
which developed the devices tested in the series;
and
by the personnel of the Armed Forces Special Weapons
Project.
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