Missions

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Operation "Dirty Atoll"

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Platform:
Reuben James FFG57
(Oliver Hazard Perry)

Location:
16-10 S / 146-23 W

Z-Time:
0500 hours

Weather:
Partially cloudy, calm seas

Cloud ceiling:
4500 M

 

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Conduct radioactive readings prior to the U.N. arrival.

Beginning in 1966, France conducted more than 200 nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific on tiny atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia until signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. France had planned a series of eight tests starting in September 1995, but completed only 6 due to international political pressure. France never revealed until recently that the final test was unsuccessful. The weapon did not go critical. The conventional explosives detonated, but merely scattered the highly enriched uranium about the atoll.

The United Nations is sending a team to clean up the atoll. Your tasking is to proceed to the atoll and collect radiation readings prior to the arrival of the U.N. Plane that is scheduled to land at 0600 local time from Tahiti.

Proceed to the following two positions and obtain the radiation readings. Due to the northerly winds, the positions are south of the atoll. You must remain within range of the designated point for a minimum of three minutes in order to obtain accurate readings. The site 1 reading must be made first:
16-10 S / 146-23 W
16-11 S / 146-21 W

But the U.N. inspection team is not the only visitor to the island…