Indian Springs, Nevada

Title:: Indian Springs, Nevada
Description:: Men checking Airplane
Creator:: Federal Civil Defense Administration. Region I. 1951-1958
Photographer:: United States. Air Force
Name on Item:: Official U.S. Air Force Photo
Date:: April 20, 1952
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: National Archives at Boston
Box ID: 05 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
Series:: Civil Defense Photographs, 1951-1961
Subjects:: Nuclear weapons testing
Airplanes
Measuring
Civil defense
Places:: Nevada > Clark (county) > Indian Springs
Extent:: 1 photograph : print ; 8.5 x 11 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/h128rv92k
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
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Notes:: Title from accompanying material.
Text from item: Indian Springs AFB, Nevada, April 20. After each nuclear detonation at the Nevada Proving Grounds during the AEC's periodic continental tests, United States Air Force planes are checked carefully by airmen of the AF Special Weapons Center to determine the amount of radioactivity adhering to aircraft surfaces. The Staff Sergeant (left foreground) is shown checking the engine cowling of a B-29 Superfortress with an Ion Chamber (a type of geiger counter), while the other airman records radioactive values. If the plane registers more than prescribed minimal radioactive values, it is subjected to decontamination, a high pressure washing process.
Notes (date):: Date from item or accompanying material.
Accession #:: 824935
Identifier:: 0880

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