surprise and pleasure that the Americans took in having their shoes shined every night and having tea delivered to the room in the morning. The survey revealed the eminent acceptability of the island as a test site. The old quarters and office buildings erected by the British for their tests there earlier could be put into usable shape without too much effort. The power plant was questionable, in fact, inadequate. The water supply CC ‘ € would hardly deme Their water came from smal! wells into the bends of fresh water on top of the salt under the istand and there were no adequate docking facilities, materials would have to be fightered ashore. The air field was adequate, although, somewhat shorter than desired(would require some work. The shots would have to be fired off the south end of barge the island, either as barsgd- shots or air drops and observed from fixed stations on the island, which then would require tracking radar to obtain distance measurements. This radar could be the same radar we were presently installing on the ships. The road from the campsite to the required obser- vation point was in good shape, However, the British although narrow and perhaps hazardous. insisted that we would have to follow their traffic rules and drive on the left-hand side of the road because otherwise their people would get confused and get into accidents. plan€for the technical An initial full layout instrumentation and shot point was drawn up during this survey and agreed to by the British representatives there. The British representatives were most cooperative and clearly intended to do everything they could to help. | might mention at this point that during the considerations for further test programs after Dominic in 1963 and 1964, it was quite clear to the technical community that Christmas Island was a much more preferable site for high altitude operations than Johnston Island. That judgment probably still obtains if we ever go back to testing if the political diplomatic 4.