might have been an Army contractor). Whereas as the same time Douglass was busy with calculations on wind tunnel tests to show that the pods could be carried by the Thor without serkeusky being detrimental to the flight. The AEC laboratories, particularly in Los Alamos, as a result of experience gained during Hardtack and earlier were convinced that good optical coverage of the event would also produce information of value to the radar attenuation question. eels Thus, Heetandts group at Los Alamos with the assistance of a great number of other people in the laboratory, began to plan and prepare is optical coverage from Johnston Island from Haleakla and from an aircraft, $iold number 136. This coverage was to eventually provide some of the most valuable =ppa information to come out of the operation. preparing for a number of other effects. DASA was also While the pre-shot predictions for Dominic as to effects were in general very poor, nevertheless, it was recognized that some of the material for some of the higher shots would follow the field lines of the earth's magnetic field and the question of where they went and what the phenomenology there was was pertinent. Thus, DASA had to arrange through its contractors for instrumentation at some of the more remote southern islands. *Passeg. Samoa, Christmas They had optical stations from Tongafe>» Fe) ty Island, and others. A corresponding job for the Task Force was to arrange with the appropriate foreign nations for sites and support for these experiments. It was also necessary for the Task Force to describe to these remote islanders some of the effects to be expected so unk as to attempt to prevent fear and ued actions on their part. As an aside, it turned out to be necessary to offer free air shipping for a couple of 124's full of paint for American Samoa in order to get the local government's full cooperation there. This paint was required in order to pretty up the village of Pago-Pago for the forthcoming pacific island governors conference. 9