FOREWORD
This report has had classified material removed in order to

inake the information available on an unclassified, open
publication basis, to any interested parties. This effort to
ceclassify this report has been accomplished specifically to

support the Department of Defense Nuclear Test Personnel Review
(NIPR) Program. The objective is to facilitate studies of the
low levels of radiation received by some individuals during the
aluospheric nuclear test program by making as much information
as possible available to all interested parties.
The material which has been deleted is all currently

cl. ssified as Restricted Data or Forinerly Restricted Data under

tic provision of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, (as amended) or
is Neticnal Security Information.

This report has been reproduced directly from available
copies of the original material. The locations from which
i,aterial has been deleted is generally obvious by the spacings
ana "holes" in the text. Thus the context of the material
deleted is identified to assist the reader in the deterinination
of whether the celeted information is germane to his study.
It is the belief of the individuals who have participated
in preparing this report by deleting the classified material

and of the Deferse Nuclear Agency that the report accurately

portrays the contents of the original and that the deleted
material is of little or no significance to studies into the
amounts or types of radiation received by any individuals
during the atmospheric nuclear test program.

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