Holland to Shilling, 10 April 1958
J. Z. Holland, meteorologist in the Environmental Sciences Branch, wrote at the request of Charles W. Shilling, M.D., Deputy Director of the Division from 1955 to 1960.
Memorandum to C. W. Shilling - Project Sunshine, comments
1958-04-10 · 6 source pages
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Publisher annotations
Commentary by The Declassified Collection, separate from the original source.
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BEST COPY AVAILABLE
The stamp is the Department of Energy's assessment of the copy it released, not a defect of this edition. Five of these six leaves carry no machine-readable text at all.
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The critique of the present situation
Holland opens by stating that no single project exists: what is called Sunshine is an indeterminate set of sampling programmes and contracts with a common subject.
NYOO and the three offices
The third office named is the New York Operations Office, which ran the Health and Safety Laboratory. HASL did the radiochemistry and kept the worldwide fallout sampling network.
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The Research Committee
The Division's internal Research Committee cleared expenditure. Holland records that it weighed monitoring, radiochemistry and equipment against biomedical research, and favoured the latter.
Evaluation before sampling
Holland argues the order has been reversed: samples have been collected for years and the need to evaluate them is only now apparent. He proposes a headquarters holding all fallout data.
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A modern word over the typescript
One word here is blotted almost solid in the carbon. A clean digital serif word has been printed over it at some later date and is burned into the archival image; it is not part of the 1958 typing.
Operation Hardtack
Hardtack I was the 1958 Pacific test series, thirty-five shots between 28 April and 18 August. Holland lists its fallout sampling as his second priority, eighteen days before it opened.
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Holland on his own workload
Holland sets his seven actual duties against his official job description, which covers only three of them, and states that the top two are always handled on a crisis basis.
Geneva Conference paper review
The Second United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy met at Geneva in September 1958. Holland reviewed its waste disposal, meteorology and oceanography papers.
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The copy list
Copies went to Wolfe, Dunham, Western and Hollister: the Director, and the three men whose papers and objectives Holland has just commented on.
Form AEC-318 foot block
The foot block carries the only manuscript mark Holland made on these six leaves: his initials across the typed office symbol. The typist's initials, pas, also appear on Wolfe's memorandum.