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A TWK from ARPA to Systems Command on 8 Nov. discusses the planning by DASA
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for high altitude weapons effects tests and asks Systems Command to evaluate
whether or not these tests can be advantageously used in the Vela Hotel.
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ARPA
requests the views following a meeting of the Vela Hotel joint technical group
on 13 Nov.
The reply written on 15 Nov. by SSD of Systems Command to ARPA states
the following as the conclusions of the joint technical group with respect to
effects test:
"Because of differences in orders of magnitude of distances involved,
the Vela Hotel instrumentation will require modification of both detectors and
electronics.
Such work is already in progress under maintenance of AEC agencies
for their own purposes.: However, the results of this work will be directly applied
to the Vela Hotel diagnostic instrumentation, especially since the same AEC
personnel are involved in both programs.
being covered under AEC sponsorship."
Thus, ARPA suggestions are apparently