: J3ed429
16 Jenuary 1957
(SSRIS: that wa are really tryin: to do is aswer those questions?
“FELT s
No, sone ‘of them we do not have to osver. |We don't nave to answer the
qusstion, we just have to make the basic assumption.
In the third cate-
gory wiere you do not have Bikini at all, then you say this, you soy well,
Taongi is very necessary to us umier this circunstance the sane way that
Bildni was several times.
It is just axactly the sare situation.
Then,
how do we conduct end operate undor thess circuxstaness, and that do w
necd in order to have sonething like the kind of facility we had before.
wo don't want to make the whole thing hince on getting a ship,
Now mayba
that works out and if so, you're lucky, but you shouldn't depend on it,
beceass if you don't get it, then you're stuck with just Eniwotok, une
less you have some pretty well developed plane and know just what it's
coin: to cost, etc.
This is thy I" lile to toss out sane eonsidera-
tons based on not getting an instrumented ship because I don't think
thet malns any majer differense,
The reason I feel this way is that
I think there's going to have to be sem sort of installation up there
anysay, with or without an airstrip, and I suspect that there will have
to be @ airstrip too, not fer your purposes but for others,
Rice
Tnere*s another interesting thing, too, Gaelen, The tan installation,
with an airstrip and that big caxp, cost sanething in tho mighbarhood
of a million dollars, Vow you take smething like the ATUSWORTI and
the ancunt they pay for thet, something like °10,000 a day.
In three
months of operating and paying for a siip, you might pay for a sizeable
shere installetion,
FELT s
I'm not trying to argve you out ef your position.
I'm just trying to
cesitciize on what I suspect fe going to haopen in the future,
CTI3INS: It's not my position, Geslen,
I will say this,
TI think that if you ree
quest that Taongi be opened up to the point of a FaxeGeergs cap uith a
tageoO Station 70, the money will not he
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