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12, Johnston Island was selected as the site for conducting
the high altitude effects tests, TEAK and ORANGE, with ready
dates of August 1 and August 15, respectively,
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13, Operation MILLRACE, planned for the late fall of 1958
at the Nevada Test Site, is to consist’ exclusively of under
ground shots,
The schedule includes five small diagnostic shots,
one relatively deep underground shot of 20 to 40 kilotons yield
to explore the field of underground testing, and approximately
eight sefety tests, from which no significant nuclear yield is
expected,
14, Preliminary planning was started for Operation TRUMPET,
tentatively scheduled for the spring of 1959 at the Nevada Test
Site,
WEAPONS FACILITIES
15. Operation of the Pinellas plant,
A prime contract for
a 2-year period was awarded in June to the General Electric
Company for the operation of the Pinellas Peninsula plent near
St. Petersburg, Florida,
This plent, which produces external
initietors for sealed-pit weepons, wes formerly operated by
General Electric under a subcontract with Sandia Corporation,
16, Storage facilities.
conclusion
The AEC concurred with thé
of the report of the Joint Board on Future Storage
of Atomic Weapons that existing National Stockpile Sites and
Operational Storage Sites, and existing and planned Service
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