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CLECLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Teac amd Orange shots are only the opening rounds of aany which will be
required before adequate umlerstanding is achieved of fiuclear burst outputs
and of their interaction with the ambient envirorment above 100,000 feet.
Recummendations and conclusions are included in each of the separate
chapters and represent the views of the individual authors.

Many of the par-

ticulariy pucsling itezs which remain unsolved are gathered together in
Chapter 1 and will not be restated here.
There are broad regioes of potentially important phenocena which are yee
alsost completely undocumented experinentally and which require bursts at altitudes above lov kilometers.

As a general récoamendatiuon, any well-instrupented

and well-planned burst at an altitude of 100 kilometers (350,000 fect) or higher
would be extrezely valuable in providing facts and understanding sf the physical
phenomena produced by burst outputs and of the potential application of these
Oulpuls.

Many engineering, scientific, and operational probleas were net during
the tests covered by this report which had never been encountered before in

nuclear testing.

If the United Scares plans to develop a capability to do

rocket-borne delivery ant diagnostics on nuclear device tests, a cuntinusus,
long-tera effort cust be established in order to efficiently meet che challenge of these unt w2 Lest reguiremenrts.
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