16 Jmuary 1957
SZHe29
4g required for wospons testing purposes alone. If you say that this
- 4g true, that there will be a sonsvhat more elaborate installation, then you
would try to mess what 4t would look like, thenits very much to our
atventage to go one step furtherand say, well, how do we make more efe
fective use of the area up there considering wiat other people are going
to med anyway even the support with a less elaborate thing than you
have been talking ebout, | I en not suggesting here that that means you guys,
your diamostic people of Livermaro, should go all out with high collimated
exporinents ani what not. I’L2 take your experimental plans as you pro»
pose it and consider how 4t gets done up there, ‘in the Might of what
other people are likely to put in there anyhow. ‘The other thing is this.
In the oreakdowm hero, try to put sone sort of quantitative estimate af
the relative ‘aportance of the three catagories, and I think that you world
find the follaring,
I? Taong’ is an extention of tho existing facilities
and there are no required changes in the oporetine procedures at Mrniuetok
or Bikini, thon there ere periiaps desirable features, but it probably is
not economically justifisbleto develop the facilities at Tasngi; now
maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but we ought to take a little closer look
at that thing.
In the second eireurstame where you are restricted at
Biking, thon Taongd becows really guite desirable in that 4t is an.ale
tcrnate firing site for large chots axt it is approaching a necessary
installation.
In the third situation where you do nothave Bikini at all,
then Taongi becomes absolutely necossary under the initial assumption
that we made and if the prograt locks as it appears to look,
If yon do
not gat Taongi and you loose Bikini too, then you have only tao alternas
ws
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tivess one, is thet you cut the progran, and the other is; well, you say
that the prograt is going to last six or eight months, and that's it.
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