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Next, let's take a quick lock at the organizations primarily responsible
for test planning and the safe conduct of nuclear weapons tests.
Pro-
zrammatic direction is provided the Nevada Operations Office by the
Assistant General Manager for Military Application,
this is General Giller,
This guidance is implemented by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Sandia Laboratory.
The Nevada Operations
Office provides the logistical, operations and safety support to these
programs.
The technical program is diagnostics and the requirements to
support the program is the responsbility of the laboratories.
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satisfies these requirements within the limits of policies established
by our Headquarters, Standard Operating Procedures, and the funding
limitation, of course, imposed by higher authority.
We'll discuss opera-
tional safety later.
The current testing areas, of course,
Test Site.
primarily involved if the Nevada
This is a schematic of the Nevada Test Site.
It consist of
about 1500 square miles of real estate and is divided into operating areas
for nuclear testing,
logistical support area, and the nuclear reactor
development test station.
The green area consisting of about 700 sauare
niles is wherdnost of the underground testing is conducted,
The red
area to the right is Pakute Mesa where tests of about 1 mt have been conducted
and where somewhat higher tests are planned for next calendar year.
The
blue area is not suitable for normal underground tests but has been used for
cratering experiments in hard rock.
This has been primarily in support of
the Plowshare Program or the Isthmian Canal studies.
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