Mr. Robert L. Corsbie
The proposed Civil Defense tests for 1957 includes about forty
scientific projects.
1957 CIVIL
DEFENSE TESTS
These have been proposed in addition to the
FCDA and the AEC, by the Departments of Defense, Health
Education and Welfare, Commerce and Agriculture; the
General Service Administration, the State Civil
Defense Administrations,U. S. Industry, NATO
member nations, France, West Germany, and Sweden (a
non-NATO nation).
(At this point Mr. Corsbie's description of the
proposed tests became classified and are immaterial to these Minutes.)
Several projects involve radiation dosimetry for human exposures,
some to develop information on ecological aspects of fallout,
countermeasures, and decontamination aspects and procedures and
others to improve fallout predictions as related to meteorology.
The development and testing of shelters of various construction
is also planned.
Plans have been made for preliminary aerial surveys between October 15
and November 1, 1956 for the purpose of determining the present
levels as well as to familiarize the crew with the terrain and give
experience to FCDA personnel.
MR. CORSBIE told of the vigorous attempt to declassify civil defense
documents.
MR. CORSBIE then introduced the subject of the civil defense aspects
of AEC installations. He described a general review being made by
his group consisting of a questionnaire to operations
managers and visits to the larger installations.
CIVIL DEFENSE -
AEC INSTALLATIONS
Six of the ten Operations Offices have already been
visited as well as Los Alamos and Berkeley. After
the remaining four large installations are visited,
an attempt will be made to prepare an interim report
by November 1.
MR. CORSBIE then described briefly
Operation Alert 1956 where AEC installations responded
to a wide variety of degrees.
Particular mention was made of the
excellent analysis made by Berkeley. The results showed that 50 percent
of the personnel would have been fatalities solely from fallout.
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