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Chronologically, the documentation was a little mixed up in this folder with

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‘quite a lot from the September time period that I haven't yet gotten to which
I will cover now.

Here is a document entitled 'Concept of Operations" which

covers the use of an RC-121D aircraft and several other types of aircraft
in a practice airdrop/diagnostics mission to be done staged out of McClellan
Air Force Base in California and done off the west coast of the U.S. on about

14 December 1961.

The purpose is for a rehearsal of the air drop array and

some of the details of the rehearsal are presented here but there is no

indication that this is anything more than a, CONUS practice for the off-Hawaii
airdrop proposal,

5 Sept. 61, J-15 Report:
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Calculations and reports on the Vela Sierra and
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underground
Iniform problems in the area of radiation transport and
tynamic problems are continuing.

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The question of yield determination for
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ion between
jround tests is being addressed in detail and the relat

problems of
tations that have been done for measurements in tuff to the
sentation of explosions in the Nevada sandy soil

(desert alluvium) are being

t for 10 kt.
"Specifications for time of arrival and pressure measuremen
yround shots’in Area 3 are being made.

The evidence available indicates

than in the
she results are more sensitive ‘to equation of state perimeters
»f tuff.

The yield determination should thus have less accuracy than for

in tuff."

1-17 and ‘J-19 are still solely involved in Rover activities.

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