Date

Aug 28, 1962

Description

Colonel Carter reported on the reasons for delay of the DDAC/ DASA study whose first iteration was in Document 8. Collection of data was difficult, parameters had changed [as described in the attachment], and the task's complexity had "exceeded all past experience in this area." The final version of the study, promised for 4 September 1962, has not yet surfaced.

Source

Record Group 330, Records of the Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy), Accession 69-A-2243, "AW- Ecological Study, Volumes I and II"

Document published in following posting(s):

"Clean" Nukes and the Ecology of Nuclear War

Aug 30, 2017

Charles F. Carter, Jr., Colonel, U.S. Army, Chief Research and Analysis Division DASA/DODDAC [Department of Defense Damage Assessment Center] to Captain F. V. BENNETT, USN, Military Assistant to ATSD [Assistant to the Secretary of Defense] (AE), "AEC/DOD Study," 28 August 1962, Secret, excised copy