QS AD IS SICINE: ci no ™ deoa To TL i lk 6. Los Alamos Laboratory also proposes to conduct an extensive investigative program in the field of phenomenology, consisting of free air overpressure measurements, measurements of the diffraction pattern of blast waves and of thermal radiation, This type investigation was not emphasized at SANDSTONE, be of special significance to the Armed Forces, It will as well, in studying weapon effects. Armed Forces Program 7. The Armed Forces! than those of SANDSTONE. experiments will be much more complete The added time for planning for GREENHOUSE as well as the increased knowledge of Armed Forces information requirements are responsible in large part for the greater scope. The fundamental objective is to increase the Armed Forces: knowledge of the effects of atomic weapons, particularly in the fields of biomedicine and of blast and stress. Screening of the programs by the Soint Proof Test Committee included an examination of the feasibility, availability of funds, and the necessity for conducting these tests at Eniwetok, rather than in some laboratory in the continental United States. Tasx Force Organization 8. The Joint Proof Test Committee paper will recommend a qguadripartite organization for Joint Task Force Three. Force Commander will have three Deputies: Deputy for Logistics and Support; Operations and Intellisence; seientific Affairs. General Loper, Admiral Hill, anc Dr. A.C, The Task USA, USN, Deputy for Graves, AEC, Deputy for The staff organization will include a Controller, J-1, J-2, J-3 and J-4; with Mr. Bryan LaPlante, of the AEC, to be designated as the J-2. Colonel P.T. Preuss, has been selected as J-~3, Captain J.R, Pahl, USN as J-4 and ~~ 3 we Cy ‘s) SECRIRT USAF,