Pleasant Grove Review | 1956-10-18 | Page 2 | Fallout Detector

I C . : f v , y S K I J 1 , 1 I i 1 ' i? 1 h ! M.I 5 1 n. i-E-f FALLOUT DETECTOR aboard a specially-equipped former Liberty ship was used to gather data on radioactive fallout from the Cherokee hydrogen-bomb shot of Operation Redwing. The collection platform atop the foremast, or "king post," is loaded with various recording instruments. The readings were especially important because fallout fall-out is now one of the principal nuclear dangers with which civil defense must contend. Civilians will be told to seek shelter in basements, base-ments, "cyclone" shelters and the like if fallout from a nuclear explosion ex-plosion is heading their way. (U. s. Navy Photo from International)