_ZUNI_ EVENT
OPERATION REDWING

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Je The atomic defice, QUNI, was fired at O655M, 22 ay 1956.

The

stot’ Tosation was at the surface on the western tip of ENINMAN Island

(TAILED? of BIEINI Atoll.

The eloud reached en estir.

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Choue penetration and sumpler aircreft reports ct i+30 nirutes inticatcd
“hat Uhe general cloud moverent was to the north et 1S knots,

Ths low.r

verttinn of the stem moved at approxinately I5 knots to the West.

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2% deSheurs PeV reconnaissance aircreft inte-cepted the lever cloud —
O riles West of SIKINI at 12,C00 feat,

Cloud penetration aircraft mace

Levrercl penetrations of the vieible Cloud during the period of h¢30 ri:utes

+ cm ngs ee ge

5 eee —— eee oo

- chrough H#14 houra with moderate intensities: encountered (60 - 10?r).

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2. -The faTlout foreeest (TAB B) for ZUNI wes based on a surface
Lurst of S-mezaton yield.

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ZEBRA I reported baexground intensities at Hel hour at a posizion

five lee South of EXYU (NAN),

Based on this report ZU3BPA I wes inst:ucted

‘yo ratte a low altitude survey of ENYU and the anchorage,
por’ved the nan air etrip and the enchorage-"elean".

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At H+id hours ZEBRA I

The initiel hel:

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