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A 25 May TWX from Bradbury and Monar to Gen. Starboard lists the items that
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the Laboratories will work on in relation to the outerspace testing and
diagnostic program, which will
include studies of various possible detection
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systems and telemetry systems and recommendations for any preliminary satel lite, rocket, or surface observations which would be pertinent.
Furthermore,
it Is noted that a joint LASL-Sandia working group is set up with Taschek
as the chairman and LASL membership being drawn from P, J, and T Divisions
with Sandia membership including Schugster, Cook, and Vaughn.
The time
frame expected when the committee will come up with anything significant
beyond the Panofsky panel report is about four to’six months.
The labs
feel that in the mean time the Panofsky report is certainly adequate to
provide any need that might be needed by any Geneva panel of experts or
any other similar group.
Since this will be a fairly laborious undertaking,
the Labs ask that the reality of the jointness of this effort with the DOD
be clarified as soon as possible.
By a 26 May 59 letter, Molnar, President of Sandia, sent to Starbird a response
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to a 14 May letter from Starbird on the subject of Underground and High Altitude
Testing Problems.
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They address in particular the safety problems
both with the missle and with the nuclear warhead and how these might be overcome,
as well as methods of instmmenting high altitude shots with packages attached to the
warhead carrier vehicle.
The primary information that will be provided for each test
and other discreet information on fusing and
firing, neutron source emission, and position of instrumentation relative to the burst.
Also detailed are the method telemetry and positioning.
This reply addressed particular
documents sent by Starbird which were drafts on the underground test problem, on which
Sendia had no comments, and the high altitude test problem on which Sandia had numerous
comments.
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Sandia did a couple of studies of the high altitude test possibilities
end include two lengthy studies here.
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