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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
JOINT OFFICE OF TEST INFORMATION
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(Thursday, May 1, 1958)
HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
FOR ENIWETOK PROVING GROUND TESTS
Protection of health and safety is a primary consideration in the conduct of the HARDTACK series of nuclear weapons
tests at the Eniwetok Proving Ground in the Pacific.
As announced previously, the test series will advance
the development of weapons for defense against aggressive whether
alr-borne, missile-borne or otherwise mounted.
Information on
the effects of weapons will be obtained for military and civilian
defense use.
As in the past, test operations will be conducted
in a manner designed to keep to as low as possible the public exposure to radiation arising from the detonation of nulcear weapons.
An important objective of the tests is the further de-
velopment of nuclear weapons with greatly reduced radioactive
fallout so that the area of radiation hazard may be kept as small
as possible.
This principle was first proved in the Eniwetok
test series of 1956.
Various precautions have been taken to keep significant
radioactive fallout within the confines of the danger area in the
Pacific which was announced on February 14, 1958.
With the ex-
ception of Joint Task Force facilities, there are no inhabited
dlaces within the danger area.
Extensive systems have been established to detect and
measure radioactivity in the vicinity of the Proving Ground, in
Radiological
monitoring and sampling will be conducted by several networks of
Stations extending from the Proving Ground to locations around
the world.
In addition marine surveys will be conducted to measure
radioactivity in sea water and marine organisms.
More detailed information on health and safety measures
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