i 0% Wi As 2 2 Tranetoris“a Crvyrern BEST COPY AVAIL: ULE 408600 RK DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE U. S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION JOINT OFFICE OF TEST INFORMATION Washington 25, D. C. repository wid te AACE No. Pet COHECTION A-98(J-3) one le ey SKE Azer 344 7-7 EBdy no LL LN Ext, .¢ tt sa. yj re shy ‘ t be ba FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | ) (Thu —=rsday, | May 1, 1958 2 2 Mra Bovetg roupen Jie we Helps SS fers 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. peg 1 ee ahbok OO oe wren eh v (more) CONFIRMED TO SE UNCLASSIFIED AUTHORITY: DOE/SA-20 | BY B.M. SHES, DATE: 5 1/74 fo AN. RS -f-S Ot ao rot Je LL pe ty EeTepacts ba cot on More detailed information on nealth and safety measures