SUBJECT:
Conduct of Future Cverseas Nuclear Tests
d. The task force headquarters mst actively participate in
all provrai. planning for an overseas nuclear test overation.
e,
The concent and use cf a scientific task group (7.1) should
be discontinued and its present functions absorbed by task force headquarters and other task groups as appropriate.
f. Some of the functions performed by Task Group 7.2 should
be transferred to Holmes & Narver, and personnel of Task Group 7.2
reduced accordingly. <A small planning staff and headauarters cadre for
Task Group 7.2 and Task Group 7.4 should be retained under the operational control of Joint Task Force SEVEN during the interimphase.
Military units of the Army and the Air Force physically located in the
proving ground during the interim period should be under the operational
control of these planning headquarters.
g.
The division of responsibilities among participating agen-
cies in the Eniwetok Proving Ground during the interim period should be
re-examined and reassigned. After this has been accomplished, responsibility for operation of the EPG during the interim period should rest
with the Commander, Joint Task Force SEVEN, and he should exercise operational control of all units or agencies remaining therein.
h.
The test organization RadSafe program should be re-examined
and so established as to assure centralized management and direction
with actual RadSafe tasks decentralized to units of the Task Force to
the maximim practicable extent.
i. The Task Force Commander and key personnel of the Task Force
headquarters should be selected for their military and technical qualifications and retained on a stabilized tour basis.
3. The rotation of the Services as Executive Agent for the
Task Force should cease.
k.
A Deputy for Scientific Matters or a Scientific Advisor
should be assigned to the Task Force on a full-time basis, and other
AEC personnel should be integrated on a full-time basis into the staff
of Task Force headquarters. Other Deputy Commanders are not usually
needed and should be assigned only as justified by the Task Force Commander.
15.
The above recommendations, with possible slight modifications,
are believed to be valid whether the Task Force remains as a unified
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