togethar with principal members of his staff, attended the Joint
Operations, Supply, Construction, and Transportation Conference on
19 and 20 February 1957 at Headquarters Joint Task Force SEVEN,
This
conference had as its objective the establishment and coordination of
operations recuirements, base facility construction, supply, maintenance,
equipment modification, transportation, and other logistical concepts
for Operation HARDTACK,
The avenda was divided into several subdconfer—
ences,
Colonel Donnell Massey presented to the conferees a trief concept
of Operation HARDTACK. > The test series, accordinr to the concept, was
to include 31 shots,
A point of great importance was the announcenent
that HARDTACK would differ somewhat from REDWING in that the "niversity
of California Radiation Laboratory, having a large percentage of high
yield shots, would conduct most of their operations at Bikini Atoll and
the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory would utilize the Eniwetok complex,
The shots under sponsorship of the Department of Defense would be fired
in both atolls, the underwater shots being conducted at Eniwetok and
the high altitude shots probably at Bikini.
In somes instances “it may
be necessary to move some of the shots from Eniwetok to Bikini and vice
versa,* making inperative the maintenance of operational flexibility.
The revuirement for a high yield dual atoll capability wos thus exnleined
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