BABA deduces from these high level statements thet their objectives showld be
to mothball the MARSHMALLOW experiment at some logical and sensitle stopning point
end asks the steering committee to assist in the details of how to go about this
phase down.
Jerry Johnson stated that after the steering committee draws up a
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program for moth balling, he intends to propose to DASA that Livermore phase out
of the manegement beginning on 1 January and be completely relieved of their
‘responsibilities by 1 March 60.
Also noted is that a program under AFSWC which
eppargntly is investigating some of the JERICHO R & D questions will continue and
will utilize both HE and exploding foil.
Here is a very lengthy draft report on the.
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_prvects program. that was written
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within Livermore, appargntly by Clark, and also apparpntly during the mordtorium.
Some
of the older historyigl of interest, indicating that the so-called JERICHO effect is the
first seriously considered by Montgomery Johnson,
Teller, and Al Latter in 1954.
atternpt
The first serious}to look at these effects was the
LOGAN event of HARDTACK II, which was not planned tntil the last minute.
As a matter
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of fact, it was about the time Eisenhower announced that the morjtorium would be
entered after HARDTACK II that the DOD pushed hard for
during that phase.
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experiment
Livermore did not want to do it at first because they didn't
believe within the funding they had been given that they could possibly field a
significant experiment.
Appparantly DASA considered the test very important as
hey gave almost a blank check to Livermore to come up with an experiment by
wWd=October, which became LOGAN.
This 100 page report gives a tremendous amount of
etail of the experiments fielded and the various results.
The first serious planning
fF osuch an event by Livemore was being done in 1957 and was to produce a so-called
‘ERTICHO event during the operation called TRUMPET.