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program.
One of the appendices is entitled "Scheduling for Operation Dominic:
Path Approach."
Noting that
The Critical
this was such a crash program, Sandia at Livermore
(SCLL) adopted the critical path method (CPM) "to control the shipment of all
SCLL equipment for Dominic, as well as the procurement, assembly, and testing that
preceeded the actual drops."
Examples of how these charts are prepared based on the
various items that must be accomplished either in series or in parallel and the
various lengths of time is presented in a brief report on this method in this
appendix.
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Another appendix is entitled "Project Stagecoach" and reports on this project
which “resulted from a re-examination of the data accumulated from all previous
cratering experiments at NTS. In these tests, HE cratering charges had been
fired below the surface in desert alluvium, and the data on the effects of these
subsurface explosions indicated a departure in scaling from the generally accepted
cube route of yield.
Since there was not enough data from the earlier programs
Stagecoach was initiated and the tests took place in March of 1960 with the
results now available confirming that the cube route scaling is not valid for
all burst depths in desert alluvium.
The principal results in numerical and
narrative form are presented here.
July - September, 1962:
This report includes some words on the extension of
in the interim period.
Dominic and the activities
The decision was made to use the Mark 36, Mod I ballistic
case on all of the newly scheduled air drop events.
The two C-130 aircraft were
modified at Kirtland for the All-Airbornediagnostic coverage of the air drop
events coming up.
The instrumentation was considerably augmented in early
September and now "both C-130's and the B-52 drop aircraft contain release and
arm-baro signal receiving equipment to start their cameras, and equipment to