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ALO memo notes presid. approval with LRL first on
1S Sept.
Sept. memorandum from ALO notes the delegation of authority by
the President of the United States for Operation Nougat and places an
ae device first on the list for 15 Sept. date.
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ll Sept. 61 Memo for OTO files by Bob Miller on "Weapons Readiness Meetings,
. 31 ~ Sept 2."
He notes that labs and ALOO met on 31 Aug. to evaluate and
1 readiness program based on 11 & 17 Aug. memoranda from DMA (copies in our
2s).
That evening, DMA requested reaction to accelerated three-shot program:
Arrow, and Tsetse.
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Labs worked out scope and dates for this and “short-tern"
program and presifiéted it to Betts and Luedecke 2 Sept. for a crash progran
Inning 5 Sept.
(preparations).
Additional request was made from Washington to
sider 30 kt device in E07; estimates were prepared but concern was voiced that
nh a shot done hastily could render the entire E tunnel complex useless for
atime due to blast and radiation.
Memo from Betts to Hertford on 12 Sept. asks the labs to consider, at the
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request and with AFSWC assistance, possible EMP phenomenology study
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12 September
Pres. approval for 3 event program.
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Some Sept. 61 correspondence indicates that on 12 Sept., Harold Brown, DDR&E
sent out a memo on the subject of "Measurements associated with Soviet tests
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In line with this direction, DASA is providing funds to various agencies
to address different types of measurements and in this particular 20 Sept. 61 message
to the Chief of Naval Research is authorizing funds addressing ionization caused by
the high altitude detonation of nuclear weapons.
About the same time they also
funded similar operations with the Air Force CRL and with the Army, as well as
funding measurements in other areas such as blast effects through various agencies.