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the test program is a series of experiments on weapon types
rather. than simply a confirmation or disproof of behavior predicted from the performance of the first FM type.
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Finally, considerations of production indicate that it
would be very desirable, if possible, to investigate the effect
of a decrease in the permissible lower limit of initiator stren-
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It is agreed, however, that fissionable material is more
valuable ‘than initiator material;
therefore, tests relative
to .utilization of the former take precedence.
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These considerations, amplified in detail below and
restricted by the 3-shot limitation, lead to the plan of Figure .
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"Stockpile Position", gives an approximate
picture of the types of weapons on which information suitable
for a decision as to stockpile types would exist as the result
of any combination of. "good" or “bad" criteria of the diagram.
Such a picture is approximate at this time because all of the.
measurements will not be available for. consideration until
after thetest.
A firing sequence plan for field operation
cannot be based on so detailed evaluation of all results on
one shot before the next, as can.a subsequent evaluation of
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