support organization and a ready site in being, such as Johnston Island
or the EPG, still has the inherent capability to support an open seas,
surface or underwater test on a "when ready” concept -- and is not a
method of operation limited to high altitude testing.
Johnston Island
could, for example, not only vrovide a site for high altitude testing,
but could also be used as a base of operation for our open seas test,
should the situation warrant.
e.
Underground Tests.
The committee has assumed that underground
tests are not within the scope of this study, since no known suitable
overseas underground test site exists.
f.
Eniwetok Proving Grounds.
Use of the EPG for high altitude
testing is not desircbie because of political reasons.
Functions which
remain a respousibility of the DOD, as 2 result of the Study Group
recommendations regardin:: the moratorium status of the EPG, can be
administered by gmail Army and Air Force Task Units under the operational
control of a joint testins orzanization.
Appropriate functions to be
performed and personnel ctrengths to be committed are teing investigated
by Subcommittee #1.
g-
Test Suvport Organization.
The exact size, orranization, mission,
and responsibilities of the test organization that would be permanently
established under the test when ready concept can not be resolved in
this paper since this problem is one of the primary decisions to be made
by the Joint Committee.
Sub-committee #2 has therefore assumed a small
cadre force, established on a permanent basis, to have the relative same
mission, functions, and responsibilities as does JTIF-7 at the present