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16 January 1957
you sheuld arrange to pick a firing location to improve that likelihood.
This in just a question of following up implications in @ more or less general manner.
We also explored the implicetions of putting in one or mare
“ gtations and I think that my feeling on this was based on the feeling that
we should do this, that ve hed to do this, and thet the value of Taongi
-@8 an operations site should not be based om your being able to get a remote
instrumentation ship.
Bither Tacngi is useful or it isn’t useful.
And if
4t 4s useful, how do ve use it without the whole thing depending on sone
other questions or assumptions.
You can develop e method of operating up
there which is based on your getting the ship end your proving cut the
instruméntation, but vhile you can do this, I don't think you should base
the usefulness of the place on those two thinge.
So we decided that we
shozld consider what would be necessary if you did not have the ship and we
bad to put the necessary instrumentation ashore.
Having tossed it around,
ve decided in any event there would have to be something ashore up there to
howze commmications.
Now you would coy that this vas not necessary be-
cau3ze you have the ship.
The argument againct thia was that you're going
to have E&H support people working up there quite @ ways in atvence of the
tim: you'll have operational communication facilities up there.
So, the
Peeling wos that having to rave high frequency radio circuits, you'll probably
have +o put in teletype.
Chances arc, you'd better put this in in such a vay
that you can use it after the first shot, although this is not absolutely
necessary.
This leads you to believe that ycu're going to have something,
not like Station 70, not quite so elaborate, but something thet is e commmnications center.
The thing is that this is not something required by 7.1,
tut H@N is going to need it.
60, we've got something there already.
I mentioned the likelihood of having & telemtering relay station.
theve'g a little more building required.
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So you've got an airstrip and one