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BLACKFOOT EVENT
OPERATION REDWING

1.

BLACKFOOT device was fired at 0626M, 12 June 1956 on a 200-

fc ot tower lecated on the northern tip of RUNIT Ieland (YVONNE) of

CATES57,
2.

The fallout forecast for BLACKFOOT was based on an expected
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The forecast indicated a light fallout pattern

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a: tending wéstward across the ENDJETOK Lagoon,
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The forecast was verifie

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‘x the post-shot radiological surveys.
3.

The initial cloud moved to the West.

Cloud tracking aircraft

<tports verified the forecast cloud movement,

l.

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Based on the results of initial radiological survey of the

cioll, reentry hour was announced as 0830M, 12 June 1956,
5.

Monitoring stations and aerial surveys showed no detectable in-

siease in activity at other than the ENIWETOK Lagoon area.

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