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dlagnostic information will be in the hands of ARPA.
designated as the AEC manager.
Jim Reeves is
ARPA will retain its advisory committee
(the ad hoc group for detection of nuclear detonations) on test detection
and identification and this committee is chaired by Richard Latter with
membership of Frank Press, Kenneth Watson, Allan Donovan, Jack Oliver,
Walter Munk, Hugo Bernioff, John Tukey, Roland Herbst, and Conrad Longmeir.
Details of350 KTr
Bots at NTS have already been tentatively determined with
the first shot being a nuclear test in area 15 in Granite, the second shot
being nuclear in tuff in tunnel] U128, and the
fhird soins a HE shot in tuff
NeVeI~ Cirect AS moteet \ere)
also in tunnel UI2B. } As for the seismic decoupling shots, Starboard states
that it is his understanding that the Hockley site has the approval of
all concerned.
Planning and engineering for three planned scaling shots at
Nevada includes a .25KT test in
neve Cived)
Ul2e03.a
;
[.2KT test in UIl2e03, and a 40 to
50 KT test in Ul 2e07.f As for the readiness program called Succatash, Star-
board states " it appears now that Succetash activities and expenditures
for NTS construction and procurement should be stopped immediately except
for completion of raw digging for the Ul2eo07 drift and vertical shaft.
(If there is any other Succetash effort that may contribute directly to the
seismic program,
it should be made known to me).
| would plan therefore
to direct shortly that the necessary action be taken to terminate such
activity and that the funds concerned be diverted to cover the initial
funds of the seismic improvement program.
| request that ALO advise me at
the earliest practical time as to the savings that can be accomplished
in
FY {960 thereby and the amount required for FY 1960 seismic improvement
activities."
tn his reply to the message Harold Brown of LRL comments on the proposed
soismic improvement activities and in particular discusses the state of