SESSION VII

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DUNITAM: [dunt know, Do we have any experience other than
with coral fluff which anparently is quite readily visible even to the
Rongerik people?

EISENBUD: Well, Chuck, if it's going to doa lot of harm, it has

to fall out,

DUNHAM:

Eventually fall,

FISENBUD: It has to fall out within a few hours. In order to fall
out within a few hours, the particles would have to be-greater than
about 23 or 39 microns and they would have to exist in large enough
numbers so that [think you could see them,
DUNHAM:
EISENBUD:
DUNHAM:
EISENBUD:

Is this tmpcortant’
Yes,

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Better than a reading”
No,

[ don't think it is because a fallout wont be white

and this is somcthing that buthers me.
WARREN: You're thinking of 109 miles away where you can't see
the column, are you not?
BRUES:

You can see the burst,

WARREN:

Because a column,

in general,

would hase some morsture

in it.

EISENBUS)- You can’t always see the column anyway, Staff. [mean
it could be a cloudy day and you would have lots of dust kicked up. -You
see,

we have exploded these things under rather unusual cireum-

stances necessitated by the fact that they are tests, Creer the desert
you don't have the conflagration that-you would have in a large builtup area, You knowbetter than I what Hiroshima looked lke just a
short while after the fire. 1 don't think you couid sce the column very
far away particularly if it was in the superton range, but vou're yoing
to have fallout because you have fallout,

not radioactive fallout.

Every

fire produces fallout cf carbon some distance away. [ve seen it in
New York City from forest fires up in Canada. This could affect the

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