-~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. (more)