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(2)
Tie-in and coordination of Pacific Missile Range activities
with those of the Atlantic Missile Range; (especially for
planning and programming space exploration launchings
and for tracking).
(3)
Members of the Committee expressed concern after
visiting Vandenberg over complexity of Atlas system
including associated questions of reliability, highly
sophisticated crew training that appeared necessary, and
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cost. (Later, BMD/STL personnel claimed that these
were R & D systems at Vandenberg and that actual
operational squadrons would be less complex).
(4)
Need to disperse Atlas missiles to 1 per site instead of
in "threes'' as now planned.
Lockheed Missile Systems Division
(1)
Need for better management of the Polaris and 117 L
(2)
Adequacy of research base for the 117 L program.
(3)
Need for more technically qualified personnel in higher
management positions.
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programs.
Livermore Laboratory
(1)
Reappraisal of the affect of a nuclear test moratarium
on the relative nuclear weapons positions of the U.S. and
the U.5.5.R. in the light of potential weapons developments
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as outlined by Livermore personnel.
(2)
Reappraisal of the possibilities of concealment of under ground and high altitude nuclear tests in the light of ideas
advanced by Livermore personnel.
(3)
Reappraisal of possible U.S. nuclear development under
a test cessation agreement.
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