The Sandia reply came on 27 Jan. and, for the Willow tests felt that the Chief
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of DASA should be notified that the AEC would provide a package containing the warheads
and associated arming, firing and diagnostic systems with the understanding that the
tests would be conduct isk as a joint AEC-DOD test for both weapons effects and diagnostic
system calibration purposes.
As for the outerspace test, Sandia feels strongly that
whereas the DOD would provide and control the launch vehicle and do certain other site
selection, planning and preparation, the AEC would have overall test direction and
would insure the scientific objectives of the tests were met.
Briefly, “a space test
of a nuclear device for AEC development of proof test purposes must be planned and
conducted with AEC in the saddle if the test is to have any reasonable chance of meeting
its objectives.
The same statement applies to the calibration or prove~in shots for
the AEC diagnostic system."
27 Jan. 60, J-6 Report:
Remnantsoe2tare
complete.
The mothballing of EPG (Operation Switch) is essentially
.
The post shot exploratory drilling program in Area 3 at the NTS has been
completed, with data evaluation to follow when possible.
NOTE:
.
As of-this date, as had been increasing for some time, most of the rea}
activity involving LASL people at NTS revolved around the reactor and rocket test
facilities.
This work was supported by virtually all the groups involving almost
11] the effort of J-7, J-8, J-12, J-17, 3-18, and J-19.
As for J-10, a large
sortion of their work is in data analysis and coding of various weapons problems.
)-11 is involved in radio chemical matters.
at about this time.
J-13 may have gone out of business
J-15 is doing calculational work in a number of areas having
to do with weapons diagnostics and effects, as well as the physics of stars, and
some instrumentation work.
and some pure physics.
J-16 was involved very heavily in instrumentation work
Also, about this time work activity in a particular local
area project began to build up.
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