PROPOSED AGREEMENT BETWEEN
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The Scientifie Director request that the following general regulaticns
be approved by the Test Director, AEC, for the bomb tests in 1948,
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desirable to have these minimum regulations agreed upon early in the operation
in order to avoid misunderstandings and, possibly, hard feelings.
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Only the Sefentific Director in person may press the firing button
Many other officials, ex officio, may veto firing at any specific time or under
All technical operations, experiments and observations are to be
The approval in
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It has been agreed already
This paragraph merely stipulates that the
Test Director, although retaining the authority to refuse to permit any given
experiment, or to order abandoning a previously approved experiment, himself,
also delegates the same authority to the Scientific Director.
This means that
in any case of nonresolved disagreement between the Test and Scientific Directors
on whether or not to do a given experiment, the experiment will not be done,
The details as to how an approved experiment is to be done lie wholly within the
jurisdiction of the Scientific Director,
If the Test Director disagrees with the
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jurisdiction of the Test Director,
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with the Task Force Commander that all technical operations will be under the
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bomb explosion within a radius of twenty miles, except simple sensory
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or give consent or order to have it pressed unless he is physically unable to be