The third attachment details the support required from AFSWC as far a technical.
workload.
AFSWC finds itself technically responsible for a major portion of the
Air Force nuclear effects programs, developments to Air Force systems having
relation to nuclear developments and tests and effects, and technically responsible
for supporting the various weapons effects and developmental tests.
In order to provide for these support requirements, AFSWC feels they need an
augmentation of 64 personnel in their research, development, and test directorates
Here is a thick document entitled, "Operations Plan for Blue Straw’ from AFSWC
and it is undated and I believe never actually published although it was written in
the time frame of late Oct.
It shows the concept of an air drop operation being
supported by an Air Task Group under Gen. McCorkle and goes into all the details
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of communications, personnel and administration, logistics support, nuclear safety,
etc.
A 20 Nov. message from Bradbury to Betts discusses the LASL proposals for
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devices and types of tests to be included in the above ground test series and
the justification for each one.
HI.
After going into some detail in the devices to
be used in the airdrop program, Bradbury stresses rather strongly 2 high altitude
experiments that he feels the AEC should fight hard for.
One of these is an
experiment to determine the feasibility of testing in space and he says, "We
believe the country to
have been badly mistaken in its belief as to efficacy of
underground testing and that the national policy which followed this opinion
might have been quite different had the actual facts been known two year ago.
We believe that we should find out by actual experiment what really can be done
in space testing before we get trapped into one or another belief regarding it.
Specifically, we recommend one shot to be conducted at an altitude as high as can