SESSION II 43 detonated, and yet in one sense they were exposed to more or less lethal radiation, EISENBUD: Yes, DUNHAM: I think one of the things, in retrospect, was. . Of course, they were in bunkers and that sort of thing. EISENBUD: But inthe Mike Shot the whole tack force was exposed and we could have lost 10,9000 men. It could have been awful. DUNHAM: I think that the fact that we were there gave a sense of security, Yousee, if you looked at the original weapons handbook ata pattern of fallout, and, as Admiral Schyler used to say, ‘Scale it up,'' why, you had something. But [ don't think anybody took it as seriously ae it should have been, CONARD: I remember that during the Greenhouse Operation, we actually did have quite a substantial fallout. TAYLOR: Also, after the first shot, the Dog Shot. That is one I've never understood, There was serious enough fallout so that people got a few r, at least. CONARD: Yes. TAYLOR: And this was knownto a lot of people but somehow it never seemed to have had much of an effect on what happened at Castle. They were tower shots, I guess. At least the Dog Shot was a tower shot. And the fact that that produced quite heavy local fallout was certainly a material indication of what would happen later. BUSTAD: But isn't it true that the March lst shot was considerably larger than predicted? EISENBUD: is significant, BUSTAD: Isn't it a factor of two or three or four? EISENBUD: less than two. Well, it's true in part but I don't think the difference I think my recollection is that it was considerably Let me make the point I wanted to make, which was that the instrument on Rongerik. which was an automatic instrument, went off scale at H plus seven hours, This was an instrument which was not part of the Task Force. It was being operated by what was