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that a continuing program of 3 or more shots per month would be assumed to
continue indefinitely. Discussion Gren (Q) addressed the impact if any of the
Plowshare Gnome shot: the board concluded that Gnome would have no major
technical impact on weapons tests other than the availability of technical
personnel which would be a scheduling problem. The attachments to the
minutes just discussed include a recommended schedule of events for Nougat
which includes 15 designated events through February 11, 1962. Of these,
S are LRL, 9 are LASL, and 1 is a DoD shot.
Further, a Dolomite LRL shot
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and 2 spares are inc luded in the list for a total of 18 shots in the.Nougat
program. The midterm program also included as an attachment contains 15
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designated shots divided about equally between LRL and LASL with cne DoD
shot and extended between March and September of 1962. Another attachment
contains the list of support facilities required at the NTS with an estimated
cost for each and the grand total is $6.1 million dollars with maybe: 20%
of this recommended as needed immediately.
the most useful document in here is the NTS Planning Board Worksheet which
ras used by the board members at the 13September1961 board meeting which
considered the beginnings of the test resumption andwhat became the Nougat
veries in 1961 and 1962.
This worksheet covered the so-called "short tera
rogram" and made the following basic assumptions:
(1) that the cover would
1e determined by the formula 475 x Wl/5, (2) that LASL diagnostics would
Nnelude a and yield for both
devices and rad chem for
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(3) that
fhe DMA fiscal program must remain within $50 million dollars througgn February
962 which was defined as the end of the Nougat series, (4) the delivery or
rable would be accomplished as presently planned with additional cable perhaps
cing required, (5) no major difficulties are encountered such as exploration
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(7) that no foreign participation of a technical nature would ce in-
‘olved, (8) that maximum use would be made of a cost plus fixed fee contractor
YT negotiated contracts, and (9) that existing operational and safety criteria
‘or on-site and public safety would remain unchanged. There foliows a twowage tabdie or various aspects of the planned devices and shots by nickname
‘ith the DMA priorities and the DMA publicized readiness date as well as the
ab readiness dates which didn't always agree and comparable estimated figures
‘or DMA and the labs.
Details such as location, depth of burial,
estimated
‘eadiness date for the device and estimated readiness dates for the scientific
‘Xperiments was included in this list which was a worksheet and on which cerain notes were made by Dr. Graves that came out of the meeting. Tne list
hows about 8 or 9 shots which could be ready prior to the end of 1961. All
£ the LRL shots which would follow their first shot on September 15th would
¢ in tunnel UlZe and all of the LASL shots following the first shot for
‘eptember 16th would be undersreund in Arca 5. The first Do shot is noted
‘Ss Hard Hat with the only planning date as carly January for tunne] UlSa.
he two-page list includes shots all the way up into the following September
md also includes the Gnome Plowshare shot.
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‘ela Uniform or Plowshare projects could participate only on a noninterference