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Chief of Staff notes that current information and guidance requires a minimum
of 24 sampler aircraft to support atmospheric testing and requests
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On 24November Gen. Betts sent a memorandum cover letter with 3 attachments
to Chairman Seaborg in preparation for the meeting of the Seaborg committee
which summarized DMA's position on the atmospheric test series proposals.
The cover letter addresses the 3 general categories of tests the first of
which is verification of designs and a few words on the LASL and LRL proposals
are made. The second category is that of effects tests and the overlap between
the AEC interests and the DoD interests in particular the two very high altitude
recommendations of the DoD are noted. The third category of proposals is
called advanced concepts and a good deal of detail of the LASL and LRL
proposals is noted in the cover letter.
The three attachments are the
letter from Johnson of DoD which I just discussed above and second a DMA
study entitled "Discussion of Proposed Atmospheric TestProgram" which is a
lengthy look at both the LASL and LRL proposed tests in exhaustive detail
as to the device and the justification as well as some comments by DMA on
the overall need for atmospheric testing and the third enclosure entitled
"Proposed Atmospheric Tests" which is an abbreviated listing of those
tests selected by DMA as those most desirable for a test series, containing
LASL shots and
LRL shots and including 2 high altitude tests.