A message from Starbird to Hertford with information to the labs on 3 wel’ Dek ———————), that he is more or less carrying out the proposal that he had proposed a couple of weeks earlier and indicating AEC agreement to provide warheads and diagnostic packages for the 2 highest Willow shots and recommended the DOD to proceed planning for outerspace experiments along the lines described in the ARDC plan. Starbird notes that Willow planning is going ahead for shots in the fall of 61 with the DOD point of contact veing ABMA and that he feels the organizational responsibilites and command and control lines of authority can be worked out later if approval for the tests is granted. As ‘or the outerspace proposal, AFBMD is handling this planning and ALOO is requested to have the labs to proceed with the engineering and development planning for an \EC package to contain the warhead, arming, fusing, firing, safing, diagnostic equipment, ind related telemetry and data analysis for such a shot. ennsee share gives a summary Further discussion of the Gnome shot and Plow of the objectives: nuclear '(1)To expiore the feasibility of concluding d be available explosive energy into latent heat which woul of electric power; A éy a a 1960: Aeeting #1590, 4 February ncnn for the production ng from (2) To investigate the feasibility of recoveri nuclear explosives; and (3) To natural salt useful isotopes produced by —___ of an underground explosion ina extent knowledge about characteristics —— properties in marked contrast medium (natural salt) having physical h such information is presently to the only medium (volcanic tuff) for whic available.'' this meeting that it Also note that the Commission felt at uct a Ditchdigger experiment in the probably would not be possible to cond re configuration of the tunnel and near future, at least where the enti on. instru-aentation could be open for inspecti