SECREF

NCLASSIFIED

group will undertake a measurement on one or two specimens provi
likely that an ordinary crematorium will operate under sufficie
conditions from the radiochemical point of view that it can be
do the cremation.
F.

It seemed clear to the conference that the possibility

cooperation with the British would bear further examination.

was avare, however, that there were several considerations which

classified
conference

t bar

such cooperation.

V.

THE CAS

vi

R

VIEW OF THE SUNSHINE PROJBCT
A.

Task Force
It appears that the MIKE shot at IVY had no fall-out stafions in the

region most likely for local fall-out.

This occurred because thefrafts which

had been planned appeared to be security risks in the sense that fhey looked
like supmarines; so they were eliminated.

The result is that we

qo not know

with certainty whether 90 percent of the MIKE debris fell out witBin 200 or 300
miles of the test site, and thereby was missed.
point is given in Appendix D.

A detailed discudsion of this

The facts at the present time are

assay indicates that only a few percent of the MIKE debris could

t world-wide
gossibly

@ppear any place else on the earth's surface, so we are left with
conclusion that the MIKE debris either is still in the stratospheme

or is in the

Pacific Ocean.
Furthermore, the elaborate preparations for determining

height

of rise of the cloud and the wind velocities at various heights

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