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Deer General Luedecke:
Your letter of August 20, 1957 to General Starbird requested
concurrence in a proposal that no requirement be imposed Pox
an additional destruct system in the REDSTOME missile
are tobe employed in Operation HANDTACK #
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We have received @ copy of the report
of this working group within the past few days, and IT note
that the distribution of the report includes your headquarters.
SSIFICATION RETAINED
DEPARTMENT OF ENPRGY DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW
DETERMAHATION [CIRCLE NUMBER(S)] -
edivised you that ne would prefer withholding concurrence
pending receipt and review of a report on the safety aspects
of the UBA and YHA-prime shota which were then under study by
-& Working group composed of representatives of AFSWP, ARIA
On Page VI-l of the above referenced report it is concluied
that:
“The probability of a nuclear detonstion which would
be hagardous to any point on the earth's surface is
conservatively estimated not to exceed one in ten
million - this probability existing only within the
immediate area of Bikini Atoll."
I accept this conclusion, and I concur in not imposing a requirement for an additional destruct system in the REDSTONS missiles
whith ars to be employed eat Operation WARDTACK.
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