B2 - page [2 Appendix A to the enclosure that discusses the overal! report is a report by the sub-committee which looked at the organization for future test operation based on a test when ready concept. probably deserves some discussion. The test when ready concept The sub-committee and the working group as a whole concluded that the two most likely modes of testing and those considered by this study would be underground and high altitude or very high altitude tests and more or less disregarded as too unlikely to consider. Furthermore, other types of testing in feeling that the NTS facilities and programs and planning for underground testing more or less took care of that concept for future planning, this sub-committee looked only at the high altitude test requirements. Feeling that the extensive preparations and large amounts of money that would be required for rocket-borne testing and diagnosing and measuring effects from such tests would lower the number of tests that would be done by this method, the committee concluded that we would not test in a continuous manner or in a manner where there would be a series with a number of tests as in previous series but rather would have a "test when ready conce pt". "flexib le method of operation, It is stated that this would provide a independent of time, scope, or place, in which the AEC or DOD would test separately or jointly as the requirement would dictate." The committee suggests that the traditional method of testing on a "series operation" basis has become obsolete and uneconomical surface or atmospheric tests are out-lawed. if Briefly, the committee's recommendations were that the test when ready concept be adopted as the best solution to maintaining a future test capability in light of current estimates of probabilities, that the nucleus of a test supported organization be established on a permanent basis, that Johnston Island be specifically designated and prepared as a ready test . a &a. 3 and that the first . mission of