Can control where the fallout will occur... "Consequently, I would like to give a very considerable hand to this group of meteorologists who we have out there who may make us mad because they make us postpone, but they keep us out of trouble. They tell us the weather with great accuracy, and permit us to be sure that the weather will not give us a fallout situation that we would not like," Unfortunately for the people affected by the Bravo Test, the meteorologists of the Pacific Proving Ground were not so adept at predicting things so that they could "control where the fallout will occur." This statement is particularly ironic in the face of meteorological evidence from the Mike and Bravo shots, as previously mentioned, For the Mike shot, nearly all wind direction above Enewetok was known, with gaps only at 55,000 feet and from 95,000 to 105,000 feet, Included in the known winds were the majority up to 90,000 feet which almost totally were heading toward the west. Only a freak strata at 50,000 feet and winds above 105,000 feet were heading east, For the Bravo shot, however, the winds in the space above Bikini were blowing in a northeasterly or easterly direction, For 35 percent of the space above that, winds were heading westward, away from Rongelap, The top remaining 30 percent of space above this up to 120,000 feet, the expected height limit of the cloud, there was no data. While it may be granted that such weather reports are of necessity minutes or hours old, it seems somehow incredible that the decision to have the event could be made on the assumption that either the unknown winds were not blowing in an easterly direction (as they were at Enewetok) or that if they were blowing in a westerly direction, they would ehange by the time the device was exploded. What adds to the incredibility of this decision is that if the JTF-7 fleet was arrayed 30 miles due east of Bikini, then firing of the device when the first 55,000 feet of winds were heading in that direction can only be judged as an act of foolishness or a serious error in judgment which only the fleet's mobility prevented from becoming a disaster. These events combined to produce a situation noted in "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons,” a Defense Department publication which noted that: 139 Lore 741