The slides in this collection document Theodore Merrell’s travels throughout Alaska as a field project leader and fishery research administrator. He traveled to Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, Yakutat, the Yukon River, Cordova, Valdez, Aleutian Islands, Katmai, Northwestern Alaska, Arctic and Yukon River villages, and Southeast Alaska towns and field camps.

MS 228: Materials in the collection include field notes, engineering reports, archeological reports, bioenvironmental reports, radiochemical analyses, maps, high speed photographs, clippings, and correspondence relating to the underground testing of the nuclear warhead for the proposed Spartan U.S. Anti-Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System, conducted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on Amchitka Island, Alaska. The collection relates to Project Milrow, the Cannikin Project, and Project Long Shot.

Correspondence and report files document the negotiations between the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Marine Fisheries Service, leading up to Ted Merrell’s participation in the testing program.