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"635 Johnston Island" Folder
The first evidence that there Is a decision to move the Teak and Orange Shots
of Hardtack to Johnston Island from the Eniwetok area is in a TWX dated 9
April 1958 from Ogle at Eniwetok to Al Graves.
‘Ogle mentions that moving to
Johnston will cost some electromagnetic data on the DOD side, but essentially
nothing else.
Herman Hemtand and Ogle feel that J-I0 and NRL can partichpate
at Johnston in the same manner as at Eniwetok.
New construction wilf be nec-
essary but Starboard has: indicated that they can dig this up out of
AEC funds.
Note that the ALOO report on Hardtack notes that the Teak and Orange
events were relocated to JI on 9Apr.5h.
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In April there was a query from DMA to Bradbury He=reply on the possibility
of using clean warheads for the Teak‘and Orange shots versus the warheads that
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had been planned.
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This was apparently driven by a request from
who {Is concerned about fall-out
Libby
and Bradbury's reply is that since the design
of the clean warheads is in such.a primitive state and they are not planned to
be ready until like [960 any use of these warheads In
a
mated configuration with
the Redstone missile would probably mean that they would not stand up under
flight conditions and certainly would require some interfacing and testing before
the actual weapons test.
In short Bradbury is pessimistic that the state of
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development of the clean weapon is such that it would be profitable to employ it
on Tea k and Orange.
As plans and activities increase at Johnston Island for the Teak and Orange shots
to be done there at the end of August, about the end of June, It was realized
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that there might well be a 4+erme-radiation problem to the birds on Sand Island CJ.A.
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