= -—_ ‘ ‘ -2AT ON OO ES ie or aA is primarily the responsibility of the laboratories, although \vOO has supported this effort. Next, let's take a quick lock at the organizations primarily responsible for test planning and the safe conduct of nuclear weapons tests. Pro- zrammatic direction is provided the Nevada Operations Office by the Assistant General Manager for Military Application, this is General Giller, This guidance is implemented by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Sandia Laboratory. The Nevada Operations Office provides the logistical, operations and safety support to these programs. The technical program is diagnostics and the requirements to support the program is the responsbility of the laboratories. NVOO% satisfies these requirements within the limits of policies established by our Headquarters, Standard Operating Procedures, and the funding limitation, of course, imposed by higher authority. We'll discuss opera- tional safety later. The current testing areas, of course, Test Site. primarily involved if the Nevada This is a schematic of the Nevada Test Site. It consist of about 1500 square miles of real estate and is divided into operating areas for nuclear testing, logistical support area, and the nuclear reactor development test station. The green area consisting of about 700 sauare niles is wherdnost of the underground testing is conducted, The red area to the right is Pakute Mesa where tests of about 1 mt have been conducted and where somewhat higher tests are planned for next calendar year. The blue area is not suitable for normal underground tests but has been used for cratering experiments in hard rock. This has been primarily in support of the Plowshare Program or the Isthmian Canal studies. ~ a Pow af “ 1 % ~ ~+ Mercury, at the extreme