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April 1960;
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:
The 3% Fs)
Yotel section reports on a few
more P=Division instrunent
packages as well as a proposal
to fly aboard a Ranger probe La
nd or an
Atlas Agena.
1 Apr. 60, J-10 Report:
In the discussion of high altitude energy deposition
QeTOT
ark being done by Skumanich, he discusses a meeting held at Rand on 22 to 23 Feb.
1 the subject of nuclear blackouts.
He notes that at the meeting a policy.
tatement was made by the DASA representative, W. W. Ennis, to the effect "that
(SA was to have"controlling guidance" in nuclear weapons effects research and may
spersede ARPA in nuclear weapons effects."
»eting
of a joint
Westervelt reported on the first
AEC-Air Force (AFBND) working group on outer space weapons
»sting which was held on 19 Feb. in Los Angeles.
This group is to develop a
xtailed plan on a testing capability for some appropriate distance outside the
irth's influence and deliver this plan with AEC-Air Force approval to DASA on
: Jul. 60.
As for the air fluorestnce detection system (ground-based), funding
we the EG&G portion of this project has been obtained and target dates are as
iows:
‘SL
la
sy stem
Approval of .the proposed system design on 1 June, prototype! delivery to
on 1 Aug., lightning discrimination tests completed at LASL by 15 Sept., auroral
.ckground studies in Oct. and Nov., and system evaluation completed by 15 Jan. 61.
prototype of the direct optical system (visible light from the expanding bomb
‘bris) is to follow the fluoresense system by two months.
Correspondence in Aprilof 1960 makes the point that moving
the proposed
weapons space tests from Cape Canaveral to Johnston Island
would cost an
ts
.
ade considerations could be handled much more easi ly at John
ston Island.
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This
system was known as ASWT (Advanced System for Weapons Test).
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sed
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additional 30 million dollars but a number of operational and safety