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27 Oct. 59,
J-6 Report:
No significate changes are noted in EPG or NTS status;
the scaled 1-point program has been started with about one shot
a week for the last four weeks.
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Here is a proposal from AFSWC for ARGUS experiments for Operation
WILLOWdated 27 October1959 and there are several interesting points:
£5 VV
AFSWCfeels stvongly that the most meaningful and militarily significant data
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which can be obtained from the high altitude tests is in relation to the creation
of the so-called "Bubble",
its expansion, its collapse, and collateral phenomena.
The proposal includes recommendations that the three devices be carried to
altitudes from 100 to 400 kilometers from Johnston Island by THOR rockets
and that the diagnostics be done by JAVELIN rockets. Furthermore the
THOR missile would carry certain instrumentation pods.
On 28 October 1959 Mr. Mc Cone, Chairman of the AEC sent a brief memo to
EA
Starboard listing items that he discussed with Edward Teller at a recent
meeting that he would like to discuss with Starboard.
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They include the
Vortex program, and Teller's views that the testing program should consider
capabilities for outer space testing as well as consider possible underground
testing on the order of 20 to 24 shots a year between the two laboratories
and the fact that Teller stressed that readiness for underground shots should be
three quarters of a
feached by | March 1960 which would require about
mi ldfon dollars immediately from Starboard.
Notes on these folders in the time frame of
a different set of notes labeled A.
1960 thru
1961 are included
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