JZ-29
16 Jamary 1957
ouly increase the cost five or ten percent, ‘low I don't Imou, but I
think that this is one of the tainzs that perhaps in the next week or
tuo we can pinpoint sonewiat mere exactly, ad I thin‘: that this ds
aie of the reasons that Joa wanted to coue uo today.
Gin3T's: Tt; seens to me that tho most i-portent thing to determine is that what
we are looking for really, is to try and shorten the overation, and we
believe it can be doe by using Taongi.
In that based on notusing ‘VWicini?
No.
We use Bikini for exal2 shots.
There may be sane intermiediate
yields that could go at ikini nicely to be fired at Bikini at almost
ary time.
The combined disadvantecs of protecting niwetek and worrying
aout the repatriated natives and trying te fire the mafor portion of
the barge shots at 3ikini points out a real advantage of going to Tacnei.
Tre concept of opsration of not building majer stations ashore is based
or. this flat pattern concent: that ws talked to you about when we started
off exmecting falleut.
To take advantace of Taongi's metecrolosic
acvontace you reed to fire in this flat vattern because it is the stable
ore thera, end it is the one which comes ~ost often as ve knov,
So this
is wh> T say, I think the Nirst point to determine for sure is that there
ie a res) advantaze as far as firing frequency is concerned,
FELT:
Yes, weather wise,
This asvect is something that must come out of the
Weather Cffice,.
Se we need Rex's report.
Yeu ece for our purpose, we simply assumes that there is an advantage.
Ue are too, but also ir. thie assu-ption, you consider thst you uss the
bar
Lix, “pee
Slat vattern and this gives you a ict of trouble on recovery, particularly
at that atoll.
Access back into it is not, now ever be, ss free as
Biltni,
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