With, a job very nicely done by Sandia under Shuster and Holingsworth, but was necessary to furnish and modify one or more B52's as drop aircraft. The bombing procedures and equipment were of necessity somewhat different than those used by SAC. This job was accomplished by the Kirtland Air Force, whatever their name was in conjunction with Sandia personnel remarkably short time. in a(f7sort | will mention here a small problem in command and AESwe control that gave me a heartburn during the operation. operated in so many places, Since it had been it was necessary for Starboard and | to fly back and forth between Johnston etc. TS ve Island, Christmas Island, Hawaii, Washington At the time of the particular incident | am relating Starboard and | were on Johnston Island preparing for a high altitude shot while an air (aA drop was being prepared in Hawaii with Admiral Muston ef contro! at Christmas Island. tn the midst of our ongoing and continual flap on Johnston Island, we received word that one of the LASL devices wes Barber's _ Point. in WexkKx The problem in my mind was clearly the question of the safety of the B52 crew from the point of view of While we were pondering that question, word came from Jim Hall of LASL to go ahead and drop the bomb and the communication system was such that | didn't catch it until they were half way to Christmas Island. From the labs point of view the problem was to fire the bomb before the the bomb wouldn't operate properly. Low where | would have stopped the shep had the communications allowed it, at least until i was sure of the safety problem. HOwever, to the best of my knowledge, nothing untoward occurred. ) ! should also mention here the problem of target rafts. The Cherokee shot kad at Bikini had taught us that we wanted nothing to do with offset bombing if we wanted a target. The target was also helpful from the experimentalist's point of view in being able to ppint his apparatus at peace and quiet before the bomber appeared overhead.