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GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO THE
U. S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON 25, D.C,
April 2, 1954
Mr, L, L. Strauss, Chairman
U. 5, Atomic Energy Commission
Washington 25, 0. C,
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After careful studies -- Rand Corporation Project SunshineAureole -- one is left at a nearly complete loss when he attempts to predict the effect of changing the base on which one
of the large thermonuclear weapons is fired from coral to sea
water.
The study has only given us greater humility, has made °
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better than coral or worse than coral in the sense of removing
the lethal fission products and carrying them into the sea berore
they reach the great continental land masses,
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Under these conditions I would recommend that you consider
making no further shots on barges over water in the present series,
If it 1s essential to do so, an attempt should be made to place
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