 Upon her return to Charleston on 6 February 1952, she resumed her normal U.S. East Coast routine.Operation Dew I was a Chemical, Biological, Radio-logical (CBR) warfare experiment.Dew I consisted of five separate trials from 26 March 1952 until 21 April 1952 that were designed to test the feasibility of maintaining a large aerosol cloud released offshore until it drifted over land, achieving a large area coverage (LAC).