we were recovering animals from the shot island, we dressed in complete protective clothing including respirators. We :ookcd like men from Mars, We invaded the shot island to get our animals, and the plan was that when we came back to our home island with the animals we would strip off all our clothes and throw therm into a box on the beach and walk up to the quarters inthe nude. On tke shot island, we could hardly get a meter reading anywhere. In the meantime, a sheer in the wind had brought the fallout right over our home island. When we returned to base camp with our animals, we took off all our clothes and walked in the nude through a hundred times as much radioactivity as occurred on the shot island! [Laughter] That's a wonderful story. TAYLOR: I would like to interject something that you challenged, Staff. You said a moment ago. you can't hear it. Apropos of the Dog Shot, fallout was clearly audible. There were little beads of steel from the tower that condensed, and one heard this constant tinkle, tinkle of steel from the tower hitting the aluminum roofs and then rolling down the gutters and piling up in little piles on the ground. The thing v.hich I've never understood, which has sonic psychological significance, I suppose, is that the radiation monitoring teams, pairs of people with a Zeuss meter, would find one of these little piles and you just heard from them lots of expressions of various kinds of bad language about 10 r per hvoir, 40 r per hour, a few r per hour anda sort of disbelief. The upshot was that everybody kept wandering around, According toa “Zeuss meter that Herb York“ bad set up in one of the buildings just to have people file past to see what their reading was, my own hair was reading 2 r per hour after a shower, Well, I got worried, along witha number of other people. But sv rehow there was an air of unreality about the whole thing. There was a big discussion about whether we would have a movie that night or not, and som2how they, and no ane seemed to know who "they'' were, had decided that the movie was all right. SomehowI've never understood how that could have happened, in view of all the literature that was available for years before Greenhouse on fallout and on how large areas could be covered with very intense radiation. No one seemed to want to believe what was happening. *" Herbert F, Yark, then at the University of California. oan, “sam te, FREMONT-SMITH: Pee th ima seen Le ehey cannesTRO eadARR Sl ts He, meeSchRRMEN ls AARst 51 arian ieee # SESSION II