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J3-H-29
GIBBINS:
16 January 1957
You think the firing frequency at Bikini is the seme with the natives
pack inf?
I think so.
FELT:
SANDERS: Do you have e figure for that?
I don't, know what it is exactly, but it is probebly something like five.
FELT:
SANDERS: let me ask this question, Walt.
If you can prove, or back up, a five day
firing interval at Taongi, can you prove the thing to be economical,
GIBBINS: Yes.
Develoyment and everything -- do you think we can?
GIBBINS: Yes.
TIec@use if you fire large shots ac Enivetok and don't fire any large
shots et Bikini because of the restriction which was mentioned her in assumption tio.
Under assumption threc, Bikini is completely imective because of
Commission restrictions.
FELT:
The way these things are greced, the advantage of Taongi increeses as you go
fron or2tc three in here.
GIBBIKS: Yes, trat's right.
FELT:
Under condition three. I think the advantage is quite obvious.
Urder condition
three, what that amounte to is simply shutting down Bikini entirely and then
its clear that firing the whole ceries at Eniwetok is alrost impossible.
Under
condition tyvo where you use Bikin’. for small shots, here again the advar:tage
of using Teonzi is pretty ezsy to demonstrate.
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Suppose you teke eight megaton
range shots or something like thet. you can split them in part between Enivetok
and Tocngi., eo there is a distin. tive acventage there.
If you were still using
Bikini for some large shots, then the advantege is really quite preferable on
the basis of time versus the cost of development.
Then it was on the basis of
this kia¢ of argument that I sugsected that the approach be divided into these
categorics, so we could just see what each one of them looked like incividuelly
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