yee wee eng ee em pret mee eg nem at \ ate et BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE . CIVIL L DEFENSE ACTIVITIES Operation ARME An aerial ‘radiological monitoring exercise (Operation’ ARME) was ‘conducted bt the Nevada Test Site in October by AEC for personnel sponsored by the Federal Civil Defens# Administra- — tion. ‘Participants observedthe use of aerial survey techniques andequipment de eloped by the AEC Health and Safety Laboratory to monitor large water and land areas adjacenfto test sites. Residual radiation data collected by aerial monitoring were found to be generally Fonsistent with data gathered by conventional surface monitoring techniques.. The test demogstrated the technical feasibility of using aerial radiological, survey techniques in civil defensq against . fallout from nuclear weapons. Civil Defense Conference . ae pO - " A two-day classified conference on ¢ “Nuclear Effects and Civil Defense”was held in Chicago in October in response to a request by FCDA for further assistance in ddfining and ‘~ evaluating weaponseffects information. AEC and contractor personnel summar ' of knowledge of the effects of atomic weapons to the extent that such information the state applicable to civil defense research, The discussions covered the types of physical damagefocivilian — structures; biomedical effects including blast biology; theeffects of prompt and tion on foodstuffs; and the measurement and evaluation of radiological contami meet UNCLASSIFIED section.) rpsidual radia- on. (End of so UNCLASSIFIED