First entry in this folder is a 7 Sept. 61 message from Betts to Livermore N kl
and LASL which asks for specific detailed estimates for a possible 100 megaton weapon
and asks that these estimates be into DMA by 12 Sept.
The LASL reply from Carson Mark on 11 Sept. gave one possibility for building
such a device,
The development of such a device from the nuclear design viewpoint
would not seem to be more difficult in principle than the TX-53."
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6 September;
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A great deal more details
of the many sides of the work going on
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with discussions with Ogle of the backfill for the first snot.
This is to be clean
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silt for a short distance above the can with sand the remake remainder of the way to
within five feet of the ground and a Calseal concrete cap.
discussed code names
Newman and Graves
for the LASL shots with Newman suggesting New Mexico native animals
and Graves suggesting one syallable words.
hydrodynamic yield measurements.
Cox informed Newman of the possibility of
Ogle requested that USGS find water tables below one
thousand feet up to six thousand feet in 1000 foot intervals.
{ September: Plenty going on. Blossom requested 10,000 feet of certain type
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of cable immediately to replace that cut by a blade this morning. At Ogle's vequest.2
working with H & N on the question of satellite holes up to twelve inch diameter to
slace gauges for time of arrival, pressure, etc. measurements for such things
1ydrodynamic yield.
Newman says Blossom is "shook about Campbell's apparant order
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Instructed him to use what was necessary, all if
Lots of activity at NTS and LASL not only for first shot but also for first
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