INDEX TO SUBJECTS 



A-Day, 23, 104 



A-Day, miss, 71, 114 



Aerology, see Meteorology 



Aircraft, 98, 127 



Alamogordo, 6 



Alpha particles, see Radiation, alpha 



Ammunition, 13, 125 



Animals, 50, 84, 129, 140, 166 



Army, see War Department 



Army Air Forces, 97 



B-Day, 1, 150 



Ball-of-Fire, see Fireball 



Base Surge, 159 



Beta particles, see Radiation, beta 



Bikini Atoll 



choice of, 17 



damage to, 163 



map of, 18, 19, 89 

 Bombs, chronology, 207 

 Burst, see Detonation 



Cameras, 78, 148, 152 



Cauliflower, 156 



Chief of Staff, 29 



Chronology, see Bombs, chronology of 



Cloud, condensation, 115 



Column, 155 



Commander Joint Task Force One, 12 



Congress 



observers from, 39, 186 

 Contamination, 159, 166 

 Correlation of damage and cause of 



damage, 127 

 Crater, 160 

 Crews, injury to, see Personnel 



Damage 



terms for expressing, 130 



to materiel, 127, 138 



to ships, 125, 130-135, 164-166 

 Data, see Oceanography, Pressure, 



Radiation, etc. 

 David Taylor Model Basin, 67 

 Decontamination, 169 

 Deputy Task Force Commander for 



Aviation, 29 

 Deputy Task Force Commander for 



Technical Direction, 28, 97 



Detonation 



Test A, 108 



Test B, 151 

 Director of Ship Material, 47 

 Dogs, 85 

 Dome, 154 



Drone boats, 128, 168 

 Drone planes, see Aircraft 



Energy release, 152 



Equipment, see Material 



Errors, see A-Day Miss, Timing Signal 



Failure 

 Evaluation Board 



creation, 15, 182 



membership, 182 



preliminary reports, 193, 196 

 Evaluation Commission 



creation, 40, 184 



membership, 184 



preliminary reports, 199, 202 

 Explosion, see Detonation 



Fall-out, 152 



Fillet, 157 



Fireball, 116 



Fires, 129 



Fish, 92, 163 



Fish and Wildlife Service, see Interior 



Department 

 Fission products, 81, 108, 120 

 Force Organization, 96 

 Fuel loads, 13 



Gages, 62-71, 111, 148, 162 

 Gamma radiation, see Radiation, 



gamma 

 Genetic effects, see Mice 

 Geological survey, 87 

 Goats, 84, 140 

 Ground Forces Adviser, 29 

 Guinea pigs, 84 



Heat, see Radiation, thermal 

 Hiroshima, 6, 28 

 How hour 



Test A, 104 



Test B, 151 

 Hulls, 131, 132 



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