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MRA-7 Project 58 & 59 NTS (FY 58)
Indicates planning for safety shots at NTS in Feb-Mar 58, called
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"Project S8A-NTS", only LRL devices.
The LASL portion "58 Project
~--NTS" was done In Dec 37 and looked at properties of two proposed
designs upon one point detonation.
LRL carried out 58A in Feb & Mar with the Venus and Uranus tests,
respectively.
M & R Record Center
"635 NEVADA TEST SITE, 1/1/58 - 12/31/65
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Here ts documentation of a visit to the Nevada
Test Site by French nuclear
experts that was classified in febuof28, The
stated purpose of the Trip.
Is to brief the experts on operational and safet
y aspects of U.S. full scale
“puclear weapons testing at the NTS. The visit
was sponsored jointly by the
DOD and AEC and there was the Intent _to limit the
discussion primarily to the
NTS with only a passing mention of the EPG. Among
those briefing the group
was JIm Reeves: and Al Graves.
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M & R Records Center
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- 471,6-High Altitude Nuclear Effects" Folders covering 1958 through 1971,
one folder classified, theother unclassified.
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These folders should be used in conjunction with those entitled “Upper
Atmospheric Physics Group" since there are a number of cross-references
and some obvicus cross-fertilization in these two fields.
Reference to March1958 correspondence on a meeting or meetings held by
AFSNP, forerunner
ofDASA, with participation by ARPA, DDR&E, and the AEC
on the matter of planning for a high altitude detonation.
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