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Addendum to AEC 952728
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General Starbird reviewed with the Commissioners the weapons
test schedule for Calendar Year 1958 and recommended that one of
the test shots originally scheduled as only a contingeney shot nc
be included as one of the regular test shots.
He also said he
had not approved a UCRL recommendation that a 20-40 kiloton
device be fired underground late in 1958 to investigate the
technique of testing higher yield devices underground.
The Com-
missioners requested that the GAC's opinion be obtained: on this
particular test before it is definitely postponed for 1958.
Mr. Strauss reiterated his concern about the large number
of weapons scheduled for testing during Operation HARDTACK and
recalled that the President had asked that the Commi ssion eliming
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some of the twenty-five shots originally scheduled for Operation
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If the contingency shot is added, he said,
number scheduled will be up to twenty-five again.
the total
This, he
remarked, seemed to be a reflection of the DOD's requirement for
an increasing number of different nuclear weapons types
The
Commissioners discussed the shots scheduled for 1958 and Mr. Lab!
requested that the letter to the President concerning Operat: on
HARDTACK state the amount of off-site fallout which will res: 1t
from the series.
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a. Approved the revised HARDTACK test
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