A 15 Nov. 61 copy of the minutes of the 7 Nov. 61 Test Coordinating Group
Qe
meeting contains the following:
classified and that
Gen. Polhanmus reported that JTF-8 is still
an announcement of the existence of that force would have
to wait until after Mr. Nehru had departed from the US.
funding,
In a discussion of
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the figure mentioned above of 40.5 million dollars was mentioned
again and is apparently the total incremental costs required to do the shots
as now planned.
In the opinion of a Commander Zawacki, for a 7 month test
response, this will be on a crash basis and will cost something on the order
of 80 or 90 million dollars, whereas DDR&E has indicated that they will approve
24 million dollars.
Capt. Craig of DMA noted that the AEC interpretation of
systems tests at this was that they must be justified on a developmental basis
or that they would not be included
in the test series.
justified on the basis of effects measurements.
Also, they could be
He also noted that in regard
to AEC participation as far as safety is concerned, these tests were service
tests and were planned initially to be conducted outside of the framework of
JTF-8, whereas it now appears they will be conducted by that organization.
It
was noted that the charter for JTF-8 is being held up until the arrival of Gen.
Starbird (who apparently has not yet arrived in his role as Commander).
Discussion stated that it looked like the Joint Task Force would be responsible
however, Admiral Gannon pointed
for conducting all tests outside of the US;
be different since the Navy
out that for the Navy Polaris test this would
would test in the Atlantic.
d have
If this effort came under JTF-8, they woul
oceans.
to split their operations between the two
Also, Major Burke, the
Air Force could run the Atlas test
Air Force representative, stated that the
test.
independent from the other service-proposed
Commander Eaton now said
for their systems test, one for
that the Navy is making two different plans