OPERATION REDWING -

DATE:

PUM:

PPG Time
eG dune 1990

0606

Dakota
Girl
25 dune 19.6

Sponsor:

1606

ayTe:

PAGK

PPC - Bikini - 6,000 fb
south of Dog
ie 36'
lo"

LGoe e7t

Site elevation:
HIGH? OF TIPST:

ON

OO"

Sea level

CurLlace

HETGHD OF BURST AID PLACIMEND:
Surface burst from barge on water

CLOUD TOP MSEGHPR:

75,000 ft MSL

CLOUD BOTTOM EMIGHE:

55,000 ft MOL

REMARKS:
Only island dose-rate readings are available.
They were ochtained from
aerial and gsround surveys made by the Radiological Safety Organization.
The t+? decay approximation was used to extrapolate the duse rate
readings to H+] hour.
This shot produced less contamination on the
islands than «expected.
However, the water adjacer.t to the northern
islands was heavily contaminated.

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