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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY MEETS ON THE 



PANAMINT. High on the superstructure of the 

 "Panamint" cruising about 15 miles off Bikini, for- 

 eign and American observers occupy a good van- 

 tage point from which to view the atomic tests. 

 Shown here are, left to right, Dr. John H. Yoe, of 

 the University of Virginia (in white shorts); Dr. 

 Michael Mescheryakov, of Russia; Lt. Colonel Juan 

 Loyo Gonzales, of Mexico; Professor Semyon P. 

 Alexandrov, of Russia; Captain G. B. Salm, Neth- 

 erlands Navy; Dr. Nabor Garillo, of Mexico; and 

 Professor Carl O, Dunbar, of Yale University. Such 



crowded rails were the rule on all the ships of the 

 observer fleet. Once the spectacle had reached 

 its conclusion the question uppermost in the minds 

 of many was: How soon will reentry of the lagoon 

 be possible? Promptly-completed preliminary ra- 

 diological surveys proved that it was safe to enter 

 the lagoon on the afternoon of that same day. 

 At that time it was possible to approach only the 

 outlying ships. It was several days before the ships 

 could be generally visited. Residual radioactivity 

 after Test Baker was considerably greater than it 

 was after Test Able. 



