Bef | wer participants-=Los ilamos, .lbuquerque, Livermore, Travis .FB, Cape Canaveral, and San Diese, to name a few. 3.3 PLANNING AND TRAINING 3.3.1 Procrams, Concepts and Schedules. Planning for Ho RDTCK was compli ee! te “fi wee toa wm pes teats ward fb. ot cated by the lateness of the Nevada Plumbbob,/and by delays in 2 decision is AL ns ps to whether or not a third Pacific test site, Taongi, would be developed end availeble. lLateness in the availability of AEC funds for work at the =FG, uncertainties regarding the starting date for HsADTaCK, and failures of th> arming and firinz systems of the Redstone test missiles added to the plan- ning difficulties. |.fthe first shot of Plumbbob was fired on May 2L and the last shot on October 7, 1957, making it relatively later and considerably longer than any previous test in Nevada. The major TG 7.1 W.RDT..CK participants were heavily committed in Plumbbob; and the results of the Plumbbob tests vitelly affected the shots to be fired end the experiments to be done on H RDT.CK.‘ ~ The possible use of Taongi, in conjuntion with an instrumented ship for diagnostic measurements, proposed by UCRL for their large shots, in order to take advantage of presumably better firing weather there than at Bikini, affected shot schedules and leations, scientific and base facility construc=tion, and military and’ ASC support. The decision by the AEC tht Teongi was not to be used was not made until June 7, 1957. Until thct time two alter- native uses of bases had to be considered in all 7.1 HARDTACK plans, £ & ue anC funds for base facility construction were not made available until lete September 1957. This made base facility compete with scientific cone struction for personnel, material, facilities, and services, and delayed — both of then. : On October 22, 1957, the Commission decided th t, subject to Presiden= coPtED/ DOE LANL RC tial approval, the starting date for AEC tests would be lay 1, 1958, and that | COPIED/o9E c = , . Pick