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effect); calibration shots; seismic decoupling.
Non-stockpile application:

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Transuranic element production; Orion.’

Agnew and the other authors then conclude "We believe that we should plan

for a test series which tests at the rate of about 1 device per month.

The

following test sequence is submitted with the dates being dependent on starting
planning in the immediate future.

The proposed tests are grouped in blocks with

the idea that any 1 device in a block could be available during that time period."
The list then following contains 3 different suggestions for a test for each month
beginning in(co of 1960 and yoWwe monthly thru Ja

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of 61.

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Following along these lines of setting out the LASL specific devices and
experiment
dated

ich might be done, here are some most interesting draft documents

Mar. 1960.

he numbers are DIR-1554 and 1555 and I have made extracted

copies of them for our classified files and nested 54 within 55.

They seem to

have been originally written by the director and are in response to a 2 Mar.
message from Starbird to the labs which indicates that the chairman of the AEC
intends to visit each lab to carry on discussions with the senior staff on certain
specific problems, particularly the labs‘ needs and proposals for underground testing
as well as weapons programs if no testing is permitted.

It is not clear that these

pages, here in draft form, ever got anything but internal lab distribution, and

the extracts are filed under “Moratorium Readiness" and are extremely useful in
understanding the director's feelings about testing and weapons developments and

the effect of the moratorium on the laboratory and certain moratorium activities
as well as the future of LASL.

It is imperative that this document be read in

writingabout the AEC activities and LASL philosophy and activitics in particular
in this period of time.

Of particular interest is Bradbury's view that the test

division is virtually completely tied up in Rover testing at this time and to

support weapons testing would be extremely difficult with the present lab

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