® = @ T3029 16 January 197 is required for weapons testing purposes alore. If you say that this is true, that there will be a somevhat nore elmorate installation, then you would try to cuess what it would lock like, then its very auch to our advantage to go one step further and say, well, how do we make more effective use of the area up thore considering wnat other people are going to med anyvay even the suppart with a less elaborate thing than you have been taliding about. I aa not suggesting here that that means you guys, your diamostic people of Livermore, should go all ont with high collimated experinents and what not, I°11 take your experimental plans ss you prow pose it and consider how it gets done up there, 4n the light of that other people are likely to put in there anyhow, The other thing is this. In the vreakdam hero, try to put some sort of quantitative estinate of the relative importance of the three catagorigs, and I thinkthat you would find the folloging. If Taongi is an extention of the existing facilities and there are no reguired chances in the operating procedures at Fnivwetok or Bikini, then there are perhaps desirable features, but it probably is not economically justifiable to develop the facilities at Taongi; now maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but we ought to take a little closer look at that thing. In the second circumstance where you are restricted at Bikini, then Taongl becoms really quite desirable in that it is an ale tornate firing site for largo shots and it is approaching a necessary installation. In the third situation where you do nothave Bikini at all, then Taongi becomes absolutely necessary uniler the initial assumption that we made and‘if the progran locks as it appears to look, If you do not get Taongi. and you loose Bikini too, then you have only two alterna tives; One, is that you cut the progran, and the other is; well, you say that the program is going to last six or eight months, and that's it. 5005b9d ane