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There Is no more correspondence here until September 22nd 1961, after NBS
10.
testing had been resumed and just as planning for atmospheric testing was
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getting underway.
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22 Sept. 61, J-3 Report:
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Under the heading of NTS-Nougat is the following,
“On Friday, Sept. 1, word was received to prepare underground testing at the NTIS.
Preparations got underway immediately at a very fast pace.
Since both the J-1 and
J-3 Groups at NTS received their instructions anywhere from several hours to 4 days
before instructions were given to other agencies at the site, we were able to procure
vehicles, radios, telephones, security support, and other logistic items long before
the rush started, and to furnish them to LASL weapons test personnel on their arrival
at the site.
We were given particularly good communication support from REECO and
the Bell Telephone Co. of Nevada as well as generally good cooperation from all
support elements at NTS."'
A few details of the first LASL shot (Shrew) are contained
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here.
‘Here is a 22 September, message from Dr, C. Reichardt of Headauerters AEC to Bradbury
Foster on thesubject of Soviet high yield devices.
He notes a request from DMA to the
for comment regarding Soviet statmments about high yield weapons and what is the
mate of their capability.
Reichardt believes that the Soviets have currently a
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bility to design a 100 megaton weapon weighing about 40,000 lbs. and to design and
a thirty megaton weapon.
He makes estimates of how long it would take such
onac-either tested or untested to reach the stockpile in the Soviet Union.
message from Betts to Rex of Las Vegas AEC which
Here is a 23 September
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notes that the President has approved the conduct of Nougat as a series of
detonations, detailed here, as well as authorizing the expenditure of the
appropriate materials.
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