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In Mar. of 1960 JIF-7 published a document #S-00012/1 which was entitled
“Operation Plan for Johnston Island (Concept 2)."
Great emphasis was put on
the fact that this was a document for planning guidance only and does not in
any way
constitute authority for obtaining or committing DOD, JTF-7, or AEC
resources, nor does it indicate any particular special knowledge on the
possible resumption of nuclear testing.
This particular operation plan is
addressed only to the conduct by JIF-7 of a series of extremely high altitude
nuclear tests from Johnston Island to begin about 18 months following a
decision to resume testing.
Here is another plan from about the same period with JIF-7 #S~00012/2.1
and is
entitled, "Operation Plan for Opensea Tests (Concept 3)."
This plan,
once again strictly for planning guidance only, indicates that it is for the
expeditious conduct of a series of nuclear tests which are developmental in
nature and therefore primarily of interest to the AEC.
They will be conducted
on the opensea approximately 300 miles south southeast of Hawaii.
Among the
details are that devices will be placed on barges or landing craft which will
be launched from a LSD mother ship and the operation will commence approximately
5 months after the decision to resume atmospheric testing.
The base of operation
will be afloat during the actual tests.
Here is yet another document in this series with #S-00012/3-1 and is
entitled, "Operation Plan for EPG Full Scale (Concept 4).
Again for planning
only, this plan sets out how JTF-7 will conduct an extensive series of land,
at
water, surface and underwater nuclear tests of joint DOD and AEC interest
Eniwetok and Bikini atolls.
The plan will begin 12 months following the
decision to resume large scale atmospheric testing.
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Bikini would be activated
only as a weather,radsafe, and/or instrumentation site.