Decontamination of Cloud-Sampling Aircraft

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Decontamination of Cloud-Sampling Aircraft

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Original caption: Cloud-sampling aircraft of the Air Force Special Weapons Center are decontaminated after each flight through radioactive cloud formations during periodic Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Proving Grounds.
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20/04/1952

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