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General Starbird said the recommendation of AEC 952/5
is
antended to provide the staff with Commission Guidance
regarding
the general scope of testing to be conducted at
Operation HARD TAG:
end also to obtain the Commission's views regarding
the use of
waongi Atoll as an additional test site for Opera
tion HARDTACK,
He pointed out that the DOD does not favor the
use of Taongi Atoll
a desert island two hundred eighty-five miles
east of Bikini,
since
it would necessitate additional DOD support durin
g the operation,
The question to be resolved, General Starbird
said, is whether the
decreased possibility of fallout reaching
the Rongelap Islands is
worth the aases DOD support which would
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test at the Taonei Atoll. Mr. Murray said he believed that the
Atoll should be used as one of the test sites.
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