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betweenUPSHOT andCASTLE, as currently planned, it will be extremely diffleult to apply this
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He added that the program described does
not include experiments for project Whitney.
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test to be held
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light of the
the continental
in the fall of 1953, Dr. Bradbury said that in
other scheduled tests, DOMINO would have to be
extremely simple because
of the shortage of scientific personnel.
It would not be desirable to conduct any DOD or FCDA effects
tests.
It
should be a test employing air drops and merely
gathering simple yield data.
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LASL was giving this development
the highest
priority of any development in the fission weapon field.
Mr. Murray asked Dr. Bradbury whether Bikini would still
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