UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY
(CONTRACT W-7405-ENG-36)
P, 0. BOX 1663
Los Alamos, New Mexico
In Reply
Refer To:
DIR-1019
January 28, 1955
Brig, General K, E. Flelds
Director of Military Application
i, S, Atomic Energy Commission
Washington 25, D, ¢C.
Dear General Fields:
Reference is made to your TWX No, S~-271 concerning the
prospects for Operation DIXIE, The Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory has also become increasingly concerned about this
operation, and the following comments, while not firm, are
indicative of our thinking at this time.
We currently tend to be of the opinion that DIXIE should be
postponed until the early part of 1956.
Our reasons for this
opinion have to do with the necessary time between TEAPOT and DXXT
for the assimilation of the results of the former letter and their
translation inte practical experiments, as well as with the
practical operational problems of J-Division.
If DIXIE is so
postponed, we see no alternative to a similar postponement in
REDWING to a time such as the late Fall of 1956 or even to the
early Spring of 1957.
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