groups, one Navy, one Air Force, and one a support group. As for financing
Starbird mentioned effort was being made to try to reinstate an old AEC
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DoD agreement whereby each of the parties pays the total cost for an event
based on to whom the event was of primary interest. A large amount of the
discussion centered around the support requested of each of the individual
services, the Navy, Air Force and Army, and enclosures to this memorandum
are the formal drafts of the memoranda for the Chief of Naval Operations,
the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Chief of Staff of the Army
as they would read from JTF8 to the respective services.
Certains things
of note on these enclosures are that on the Navy enclosure where the ship
requirements are listed included is a request for six shot ships of the
Liberty class which are to be expendable since they would serve as the
platform for detonation of the near surface shots. Also included in the
Air Force request list for support is a request for six B57D aircraft which
was crossed out and changed to 10 and a note is written in that at this
time only 3 of these were available for high altitude sampling and that
others would be hard to come by. An LRL list of device by device readiness
date for testing is contained herein as it was reported at the meeting and
a note that LASL will provide a similar list for JTF is included. There
was also some discussion of the missile requirements between Gen. Starbird,
Don Shuster of Sandia Corporation, Dr. Herlin of LASL and Mr. Gale. In
addition to the two shots that are planned, AEC is interested in a third
shot with a yield of 50 kilotons or so at a few thousand kilometers to
check out the capability of space testing as well as making physics measurements and doing some measurement relative to the Vela Hotel and Vela Sierra
programs. There was agreement that the high altitude schedule would be
set up to accommodate three shots in case one of the shots was a failure
but that the likelihood of an added shot was remote.
Note that there is a copy of Joint Staff memo No. 5, 7 Dec. 61, which may
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or may not be in our other files.
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By a 7 Dec. 61 message, the Chief of DASA (Booth) authorized the
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Commander of JTF-8 at Barton Hall to issue travel orders for military
personnel assigned to JIF-8 as done previously for JTF-7.
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of an upcoming visit to Johnston Island is interesting in that it names certain
specific personnel who are involved at this time. From Douglas Aircraft
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Corporation are Jennings Simons, William Hooper, Roland Saye, B. P. Crass,
Allen Hittendale, and E. L.Arthur.
A. Dumas is listed. —
9 December
From Fietd Command, DSA, Major Walter
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announces, as result of
study of Soviet test series, that "there is no reason
to believe that the balance of nuclear power has been
changed to favor the Soviet Union."
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