-~4With better weather information, more accurate cloud
models, and faster procedures made possible by computing
machines, the fallout prediction unit will be able to make
much more rapid and accurave forecasts of fallout patterns
than was possible two years ago.
Tests will be conducted
only when significant fallout is predicted entirely within
the danger area.
Energy Release of Detonations
As announced on March 1, 1956, the 1956 tests will
involve weapons generally smaller in yield than those tested
during the 1954 saries.
The energy release of the largest
1956test is wie be substantially below that of the
maximum 1954 test.
Danger Area
The danger area is generally rectangular in shape
and comprises roughly 375,000 nautical square miles.
boundaries were announced on March 1, 1956.
Its
While slightly
smaller than the danger zone used in the latter part of
the 1954 series, the area is many times larger than the
initial danger area used in 1954,
slightly for increased safety.
and has been reoriented
Outside of the test facil-
ities, no inhabited atoll is within the area.
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