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HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
FOR ENIWETCK PROVING GHOUND TESTS
Provection of health and safety is a primary considera-
ion in the conduct of the AARDTACK series of nuclear weapons
tests at the Eniwetok Proving Ground in the Pacific.
As annoinced previously,
the test series will aavance
the development of weapons for defenses against aggressive whether
air-beorne,
missiie-borne or othecsise mounted.
Information on
the effects of weapons will be obtained for military and civilian
defense use.
As in the vast, test operations will be concucted
in a manner designed to keen to as low as possible the public ex-
posure to radiation artsing from the detonation of nulcear weapons,
An important objective of the tests is the further de-
velopment of nuclear weepons with greatly reduced radioactive
fallout so that the area of radiation hazard may be keot as small
as possible.
This principle was first proved in the Eniwetok
test series of 1956,
Various precautions have been taken to keep significant
radioactive fallout within the confines of the danger area in the
Pacific which was annovaced on February 14, 1958.
ception of Joint Task Force facilities,
places within the danger area.
With the ex-
there are no inhabited
Extensive systems have been established to detect and
measure radioactivity in the vicinity of
the Prcving Ground, in
the United States, and in other parts of the world.
Radiclogical
Monitoring and sampling will be conducted by several networks of
Stations extending frou the Proving Ground to locations around
the world.
In addition marine surveys will be conducted to measure
radioactivity in sea water and marine organisms.
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