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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
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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
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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
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the cceanographic surveys, has Leen changed from the original plans
but the program that is presently contemplated is given on the
attached sheets.
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(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
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