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A 17 Noy. TWX from Wm. Lawrence of ALO to Bob Krohn of LASL discusses the
definitions of various terms that have recently appeared but have not been
officially defined.
ALO's understanding, which seems to be as good as
anybody's, is that Ivanhoe is an unclassified term identifying a continen-
tal test series to follow Nougat after Feb. 1962 and would include only
underground tests. Blue Straw identifies tests that may be conducted outside of the continental U.S. and it is stated here Blue Straw apparently
includes and supersedes off-continent testing identified as Operation
Eveready. JTF-8 is the task force which will accomplish the Blue Straw
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objectives.
A 17November_memo from Ogle to Bradbury and others at LASL details the
Sandia/LASL meeting on atmospheric testing held 16 November.
From Sandia
were Schuster, Jim Scott, Charles Scott, Milligan, Kramm, Mehl, and Claassen.
From LASL were J-Division personnel, Jim Koon and Stopinsi of H Division.
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Subjects discussed were: high altitude shots; telemetering of alpha on air
drops, barge shots, and high altitude shots; telemetering
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the 8 in. gun; the question of the drop case to be used for various
devices, with Sandia preferring to use a 39 case for all air drops independent
of the size of the device; Sandia capabilities for monitoring various device
functions on air drops; Sandia preparations for either a ground borne or
ship borne tracking system for both the drop plane and device; and questions
about the balloon site at Christmas Island.
A number of details on the
first subject (high altitude shots) are worth mentioning.
There are four
pofnts of view from which such shots are interesting:
1.
The possibility of using high altitude shots to measure the neutron flux
distribution for the 50,
2.
Checking out space testing techniques,
in particular yield measurements
by observation of x-ray flux _
3.
Checking out Vela Sierra and Vela Hotel methods of measuring
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