During this same period of time, appropriate considerations concerning the devices to be detonated in high altitude shots were taking place. . cf IT was t3 essentially mandatory that the devices be steek-béund weapons that had been tested. Now I've forgotten a point and | guess we have to go back to the books to find out, but I'll say it the way | of King Fish is wrong. remember it. | guess my memory Anyway, the desire was to have at least one moderately clean device to check out the difference bekween in radar attenuation effects between devices with a large amount of fission and devices With fission. Entering into these questions were the considerations of whether the laboratories could furnish the devices required with appropriate fusing changes and whether those devices would take the accelerations furnished by the Thor missile. Thus, discussions were held between the task force staff, Starboard, Ogle, Schuster and others, and the laboratories, including Sandia, and the DOD personnel responsible for the experiments on the shots, mainly DASA. Eventually, the following warheads were agreed upon: point of me listing them here because !'I|l get them look them up in the books. there is no wrong, we'll have to During this same period of time, experimental program for the high altitude shots was being designed and put together. While the main purpose of the shots were to investigate the effects of high altitude detonations, tt was recognized that a number of other effects were also important and could be investigated at the same time. Primary amongst these was the desire to obtain genuine x-ray abt¢lation effects measurements on possible rv materials. The prime method of determining these quantities is thru the use of three pods to be attached to each missile. These pods would be released during flight at such a time as to be the proper distance from the detonation at the time of detonation. The pods design and construction itself was carried out by DASA contractors (better check that it 8