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Along these lines, a 21 May message from Starbird to the Operations Offices and
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Livermore directs some work to begin investigating the feasibility of HE detonations
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in salt mines in Louisana or Texas.
Here is a 22 May Loccace from Starbird to Harol Brown which addresses the
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high altitude and underground technical discussions at Geneva.
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but Starbird wants to clarify some points as to what data may be needec there and
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what things may be discussed with the Soviets and possibly which things snould not.
He wishes a report relative to shielding of high altitude events prepared by
Livermore so that it can be cleared for classification and available to the Geneva
Delegation before it is needed; DMA requests it by 5 June.
In relation to the
underground detection, DMA feels that the information passed to the Soviets wiil not
go into the LATTER-BETEE hole theorybut will address decoupling.
Acknowledging the
fact that a short renge crash program will probably not produce the desirea results,
he reiterates his early suggestion of "the possibility of Laboratory or very Smal}
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and early shots and detailed investigation of the EVANS-Fiiies:
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In regards to this “it would certainly be nice to be able to present some Simple
information that dramatically supported the idea of decoupling at any time the issue
might arise.
I hope, therefore, that you continue to think on the matter, and that
you will particularly try to find something significant and useful in the EVANS TAMALPAIS
analyses."