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18 March 1954
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1. Attached herewith for your information and retention are coples of
radiological surveys made on certain Marshall Island Atolls. The surveys
were conducted as a result of contamination deposited on the affected atolls
by BRAVO Shot, Operation CASTLE, fired from a reef approximately one and one
half nautical miles southwest of Nam, Bikini Atoll.
1845 Zebra, 28 February 1954.
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BRAVO Shot time was
Water and soil samples were shipped to the Health and Safety Labora-
tory, New York Operations Office,
Merrill Eisenbud)
for analysis,
Atomie Energy Commission (Attention: Mr.
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USS PHILIP (DDE-1,98)
USS NICHOLAS (DDE-449)
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1. Report on Soil and dater Sampling
Sission by Maj Kh. D. Crea
2, Xeport on Soil and jater S-mpling
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3. Rad. Survey of Downwind Atolls Contaminated
by BHAVO by Dr. tierbert ocoville
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