oh
The documentation through 1959 Indicates a certain amount of discus
sion
pertaining to the ground water problems at the NTS and a 20 Octobe
r 1959C
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letter from Graves to Jim Reeves which answers a request for
information
”
from the previous June indicates that apparently the Judgmentneypeer
to look at the ground water picture at the NTS in great defai fisgoing
to be a very expensive investigation.
Apparently because this would be
a large effort for the USGS there has been some suggestion that the whole
test organization look fo using other locations within the U.S. for extended ,
underground testing.
Graves feels that this is a case of "a very smal t Atta
wagging a very large dog."
Pertinent information includes “although i agree
with the desirability of an extensive survey to establish the ground water
picture at NTS,
| doubt criticism
of the Commission's underground test
activities is justifiable since the knowledge that we have caused no water
contamination by previous tests constitutes the best possible evidence that
the commission's program has been acceptable.
f
.-| would agree that large
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i
extrapolation of that program requires considerable thought before being
i
carried out, but smal! extrapolations can almost certainly be made with
very minimum risk of causing difficulty."
.
(4) A 22 October '$9 TWX from Starbird to Teller and Johnson among others states
that the neypian “or omplacement of the Cottontail eaplusive will be discussed’
it is noted must approve such a
‘following a review by ALO.
witht.
approval which indicates that
such
plan and Commit funds for it prior to any
the scismic program or Vela Uniform or whatever it was called at this time
was more or less under the overall cognizance of
23 Oct. 59, J-16 Report:
Reecene
7
Dick Wakefield reports that one shot hassbeen fired
in the 1/10th scale model of a proposed container
for use in 1-Point tests.
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