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what happened between these two points, what the trajectory was, we don't know and then there's a question of location which you mentioned. I forgot to mention one.thing which we did plan - we plan to put at the recovery location some
sizeable floats in the water that can be identified, at the latest time before
zero that we're in there, to measure the ocean drift and get some idea of loca-

tion.

For example, if this were missile #1 here, and this were missile #2 down

here, why, we could surmise that this is probably #2 but we'll never have any
way to prove that, I don't believe.

Q:

Are these landing in the ocean or the lagoon?

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In the ocean.

Q:

Have you made any arrangements for picking them up - ships, boats, personnel?

A:

We need them.

Q:

How accurately can you time the firing of these missiles?

We think we'll need a helicopter - we thought we'd have

radioactive sources in the missiles and we have been tracing these out in the
desert by using a biplane, just slightly bigger than a Piper Cub. They will
probably be rather "hot" and will have to be hooked onto a helicopter or dragged
in the water rather than taken on by boat.

A: That is something that will come out in these tests - we naturally have to
fire before the firing of the weapon itself and there is some question in the
build-up stage and the pressure in the fireball. This is something we've had no
experience in since in the New Mexico tests we were firing almost vertically
rather than with the trajectory we will have here.

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