nT Ee Ce REPOSITORY Whtblir COLLECTION 2L si- 5% me + moog dayne_ CoLinwie eonginte orsebpages i een 010) pox no. 40 (Hy 3- 326° 97- 408878 covenHodbek, saits ino_abY Opetation WARDIAGK eee 3 BEST COPAVA Y ILABLE 'Mr, Strauss recalled the President's instructions to the AEC"~ to reduce, 1f picvsivie, the number of shots scheduled for Operation HARDTACK to less than 25, He said the Commission wished to ciscuss with the MLC the schedule for the test serles and attempt to eliminate some o* the shots. General St:iroird then reviewed with the aid of charts the 18 devices scheduled by the AEC, and the 3 contingency devices which arc to be ready for testing if some of the other shots do not function properly, Colonel Lay described with the use of slides the five shots requested by the DOD for the test series, ‘Three of the five, he said, would be high altitude detonations and the other two WenaGbe underwater bursts designed“for naval use, The highsedbuag: LR, | shots to be detonated from rockets, Colonel Lay said, are int nded to provide information in three major categories; (1) weapons = effects data for anti-ICBM missiles (2) data on neutron fluxes at high altitudes, and (3) the ability to detect nuclear detonations whether it would be possible to obtain all the information needed from the 250,000 foot shot alone, He pointed out that off-site fallout would be reduced by approximately two megatons if the 125,000 foot shot were eliminated, General Loper replied that in order to determine the effects of detonations at these high altitudes it is necessary to know . theeffects from‘at’east:“two:“shots so that effects: data“cansDe {CLASSIFICATION CANCELLED ae By AUTHORITY OF DOE/OC _ REVIEWED By, oATE ‘ =