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Thus, it appeared clear that the high-yield shots not
requiring closely aligned or stable platforms should be barge
shots off Yurochi, using the structures built for CASTLE,
The
Zuni shot uses instrumentation requiring land so it inherited
the Eninman region,
The DOD requirement for fall-out studies
on the Cherokee air-drop required a fairly large land mass,
so its ground zero was placed in the center of Namu Island,
The Seminole was originally conceived to be a fairly high-yield
shot requiring detailed instrumentation, so with some reluctance
it was put on Teiteiripucchi Island in order to use the Ivy
recording structure on Bogon -- later, after the rest of the
program was fairly well settled, the design yield was reduced
and the zero point was moved to Bogon,
In order to use the
same recording stations for several shots and to reduce both
the experimental effort and construction effort, some of the
small shots (the Yuma, Inca, Kickapoo, and Mohawk) were put on
Aomon-Biijiri group as tower shots, and by ordering the shots
so as to have the largest yield last, the towers could be all
built before the operation began,
Similarly, the other small
shots, Blackfoot, Erie, LaCross, and the Osage Air Drop, were
put on the only remaining piece of land except Engebi; that is,
Runit Island,
However, since LaCross was to be a highly instru-
mented shot, it had to come first, and since it was also fairly
large, the towers for Erie and Blackfoot could not be built
ahead of time.
Engebi was not used initially, since fall-out
from shots there would certainly land on the Bogon installation,
However, we have the capability of putting up a tower there
later in the series and making the appropriate measurements if
it should prove necessary,
Now as to time,
The LaCross shot had to be fired first
of the Runit shots because of construction problems,
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