— e e Jet29 is available, 16 January 1957 We had decided to carvy on this feasibility study in the following order: first, how do you gain access te the atoll in the besinnine to stage an operation; secondiy, what sort of firing do you do there and with what sort of instrumentation, and thirc. the ques= tion of airstrip and semi-permanent camp facilities versus no sirstrip ani no camp, We accepted from tae begining that the best contept would be ons of renote diagnostics and remote firing of devices from a shi. Barge ficzing sites would be selected in the nerthern end of the lagoon in th: most strategic locations to prodrce a better anchorage. The first shot would be fired to give a break-throush in the reef and later shots world be stepped in to improve the archorage. The Task Force and the Navy supplied us with Hydrographic Office survey work-sheets and pictures. Se:-iop¢ has looked into the permanence of the sand islands, if the reef is breached, and the exchange of water in the Lagoon tc determine the fexsibility of setting off one shot <end then going back in five davs to s2. another one just off the eige of that crater, Nothing is mow: about the: currents and we felt that this was pertinent information and wanted to stirt a marine survey. Thayor's program of deep-water shots in WARDTACK involves sending two vessels out to the Forward Area to make some soundings, 50 we talked to the Task rorce about including five Scripps people in the Second ons of these two trips, but the necessary money was not made avail-~able, Gaelen and I put the quastion to the AEC and apparently the feeling wae that we should have been working with the AEC all the time, So the way the thing stands now, I think we can go ahead and write this feasiq bility study leaving out two of the most important answers; first, how C.ry socn can you get back in thére after the first shot and secondly, the fe;