28 Apr. 60, J-6 Report:
As for the NTS work, procurement of the following for
2 with new and old holes in Area 3 has been requested:
16,000 ft. of a certain
ve of coax cable; 48,000 ft. of another type of coax cable; connectors for various
es of cable; hardware to suspend coax cable from hoisting cable.
Sam Howell from
« N came out at the end of Mar. to review requirements for Area 3 and a thorough
scussion of operations on deep holes was carried on.
‘vious months, the following has taken place:
As for items requestcd in the
The bids for drilling new holes
"e opencd on 26 Apr. 60; six M-G sets are to be delivered to NTS in May; 81,600 ft.
:
alpha trailers will open on 9 May with delivery asked for 22 July,
A 28 April 1960 memo for record in JTF-7 discusses the possible transfe r of
ne oe
EPG to the PMR and discussions between the two organizations.
Mention is mad e of
few
sociated hardware and cabling are to opened the first week of May; and a bid for
os
a certain type of coax will be delivered by mid July; bids for winches and
JA
Johnston Island in that it now looks very much like the Army Nike-Zeus project may
back out of Johnston even through they have added 22 acres to the island, among
The reason given is that firing the IRBM from Johnston creates a
hazard to the natives at Kwajalein since the sustainer fragments would land in ene JA
vicinity.
_Here is a cross-reference to a message from Starboard
to Bradbury dated
29 April’ which states that the JCAE has asked the AEC
to prepare a
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bibliography of references concerning the technical proble
ms involved in
moni toring an agreement on banning nuclear tests.
LAS is to prepare the
bibliography for. monitoring tests in the atmosphere and
at high altitude.
The referenced TWX is filed in "334 JCAE.",
BR
Swe
other things.