R AO 58d January 27, 1958 Paul F. Foster, Assistant General Manager for International Affairs Cc. L. Dunham, M.D., Director, Division of Biology & Medicine HARDTACK - BIOLOGICAL AND OTHER EFFECTS OPENNET ENTRY r Aumorzeg tur OP iar BMES:AHS SYMBOL: hy “ AL, Ub tite The, 13 Pe Patera! yt ipo tklat ty 5 Das 9 ar duinguied tor Fucks Pelgasa ily > ghes sin reply to Phillip J. Farley's inquiry about "biological and @with Hardtack’', reference is made to the program as outlined fon the attached sheets. The objectives and sections I and II By of the program are essentiaily the same as presented to the Division of Military Application on February 19, 1957, in the memorandum, “A Program for Radiobiological Survey of the Eniwetok Test Site’. Sections I a and II sf che program will be executed by the University of Wasnington. Assignment of I B, lagcon-atoll i . x F ee est ~~ | ma oa gwat awe {Ou we — joe oan Sa ff <i ty ze t —~ 2 fx wi PO srda pose| eco! Beos Yeo ees Zoe TESS nar) BRS zo vere tee “oo 2 tA st wok TOUR we ak OBS E etn ut 4.€ ad cas ke ae Se he 2.C DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW GET AMINATION [CIRCLE NUMBER(S) = SSMNIRIRpagis EI surveys in the Palat}) Saipan area, is yet to be made. ~ oO mY wo ~ & ZN a ~ MN or zr 2 a ’ To = «f ovr s. in the NAS-NRC Committee state three steps to be followed: t <T, a 3 . . xf . | giie A | = +: en aap eon. x“ . o I i Jai a ia #¥ The above program is programmatic and is designed to provide information about the contamination of plants and animals in the vicinity of the Eniwetok Test Site. These objectives are quite different from the objectives of the program recommended for future weapons tests by the NAS-NRC Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation on Oceanography and Fisheries. Their recommendation that ‘*-there should Le a serious effort to obtain the maximum of purely scientific informacicn ubout the ocean, the atmosphere, and marine organisms' is not fuifilied by the program for Hardtack. However, between testing programs, some tasic research in biology is conducted at Eniwetok in the marine biological laboratory that was established there by the AEC. A few scientists can be accomodated in this Laboratory to work on research of their own choice. The recommendations of the NAS-NRC Committee are commendable and it is to be hoped that these recommendations can be carried out in the future. To obtain the objectives set forth in the recommendations 3. a Section III, the cceanographic surveys, has Leen changed from the original plans but the program that is presently contemplated is given on the attached sheets. . a 4 SR (1) “In the planning stage committees of disincerested scientists should be consulted and their recommendations followed". One such committee was convened in December, 1957 to review the Divisions program in marine biology and oceanography und stands ready to provide service of the sort called for in the above statement. (2) “funds should DOR ARCHIVES