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The technique of using barges as shot sites was practical and

essential to the CASTLE tests and allowed greater flexibility in the
operation.
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Neither change would have been possible with land shots.

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attempt to fire from a barge on the high seas was deemed unvise uotil
the problems of tsumanis (great sea waves produced by submsrine earth
movements or volcanic eruptions) are settled and other operational

problems carefully studied.

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