26 January 1957
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RAC?
Ch, yoS, you would never bring that LSD into the lagoon, .
GTI33TUS: You couldn't?
How mach docs that ship draw?
Rie
About 1h, 19 facet, doomn't it.
FELTs
The Dog boat?
IWCKEs
ore than that.
Elces
If you shoot sanething like Hike on the reef, and get a crater ebout
a mile in diancter, which is about what we got, this is hardly
ranouvering roon for the Dog boat,
I-don't think they would com into
2 hole and try end turn around amd come back out.
FELT:
Ve are not going to settle this until we talk to the Ceptain. I think
we should asmme that it is probably going to be a little more difficult
to offeload a barge in the Taongi area than it was in the Bikini area,
QTSBINS:s thether he goes into the crater or not?
FELT:
T an not sure that that would make all the difference. If you Mre a
snot and breech the reef, so that it is open to the eee but still dees
not afford a lot of protection, this is still an improvement.
RCs
There 4s ons thing thet 1s bcthering me about this firing a shot and
oreeching tho reef or placing it in the north end of the atoll; if
you get permission to uso Taongi, eventually you will go to ahore-based
fecilities.
FELT3
Wa will fire it at Eninstck.
RACs
Well, maybe so, but I have got a hunch that if you put that alpha station
as far up on the northern land mase as you can, and operate with the
range we have used in the past for these things, you don't coxe close,
to the reef, anyway.
CI53INSe I agree.
RAC 3
I aa wondering if it 4s really sensible to talk sbout firing up in that
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