Kennedy at which Admiral Mustén with his normal flair took along a.m Lace.
series of carefully prepared and quite beautiful photographs of a number
of the detonations and of other things on the istand.

;

After President

Kennedy looked at the photographs with interest, he raised the question
of chat widely distributed the pictures were.

After some h@mming and

hawing, the Admiral answered that numbers of people in the government
had copies of Themwhich was rather horrifying to President Kennedy; he
felt that all pictures should be closely held even within classified
government circles and ‘make clear his desire for such a policy.

Asa

result of that, not only was it necessary to take personal cameras away
from all the personnel

in the Task Force, but it was also necessary to

set up a system for internal use of photographs that was onerous for some
years afterwards.
It now became necessary to implement the Christmas Island decision.

The

Jaboratories immediately began tearing the equipment out of the ships, or
if the equipment was not there, get there, preparing to ship it To
Christmas instead.

Sandia accepted the job of setting up a tracking radar

system that would not only track the B52 drop aircraft but would also track
the device as it fell.

Sandia took on the job of packaging the devices for

an air drop using a bunch of reworked 36 cases and putting on the appropriate
fusing systems and beagons. A facility for handling the weapons was designed
BAAMKG
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and built or
(we'd better look that up) at Barber's point in
Hawaii.

It had been decided to deliver the bombs by B52 from Barber's Point.

The strip at Christmas tsland was somewhat short for the 52 and we did not
have the proper weapon handling facilities there.

Barber's point was picked

instead of Hickam because we did not want to put test devices or weapons
weapons
into the Hickam air field. Sandia and the Ak& laboratories took on the job of

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