. JB 29 ae 16 January 1957 2 small structure to start your firing link, your telemetering links and your commmications, plus probably sone sort of elevated platform or p.-atZorms on which to put your repecting antema,. lava you ever thought just how much quicker we could have gotten rid of REDWING had we had Taongi and your plan for using it. It seems to me it would be a good justification. QIBDINS: That's right. UNKs That would be a part of thie report. You visualize SARDTACK to be the size of REDWING, GISBINS s There again the major consideration would be weather. In spite of the facet that the statement is made thet we always fire just as if the na= tives were on Rongerik and Rongelap because we didn't want to lay any stuff down over there knowing that they would come back same day, I don't buy that arguement, I don't think thata true. I think that whenever tte veather people make the statement in answer to the question will there be any fallout on Rongerik and Noncelap, at least on REDWING they said there should be none and to go aheed and fire, thLere, tansy would say are you sure? CURRY: If there were natives There is a difference, Jo you feel you will still save time even though this operation were campletely based afloat, with no airstrip, no helicopters nothing but boats? GIS3INSs Right. Because I think that we should be able to maintain a five day firing frequency at Taongi, LUCKE : De you think your personnel could live with say a forty hour trip from Eriwetok? GIBBINS z Yessir, yessir, on the right ship. LUCKE ¢ Well, as I see it, you would have to have an APL up there to elininate this necessity of ship to share movezent daily of personnel, And your instrumented ship, whatever it might be, say the CURTISS or samething elge, 900508 | of course could not be moored but would have to be steaming all the