TABLE OF CONTENTS
FACT SHEET
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
21
TABLES
Chapter
1
OVERVIEW
25
Introduction
20
Purpose
25
Historical Background
26
Report Organization
26
Nuclear Tests and Radiation Exposures
o7
Experimental Program
31
Weapon Development
31
Yield Measurements
32
Diagnostic Measurements
33
Effects Experiments
35
Environmental Measurements
35
Systems Response Experiments
36
Oceanic Testing Operations
37
Marshall Islands Setting
37
Physical Conditions in 1954
42
Radiological Conditions in 1954
47
Special Problems in Oceanic Testing
51