3: pec. 59, J-10 Report: Skumanich, the LASL member of the
Sree
Steering
°
Committee, reports on the 10 to 11 Dec. meeting of that committee, at which the plans
program at
to terminate and phase out the activities of the underground
NTS were announced.
B Y
The phase out is to take place from 1 Jan. to 7 Mar. of 1960.
Livermore people involved.are going to. mave jato the area of high altitude studies
(detection?) and Sandia also is terminating their
experiment of measuring
the bomb temperature and X-ray spectrum, which is apparently 7% to be taken over
in some sense by Lockheed.
program is to be mothballed after the
"The
present calibration experiments (of detector systems, etc.) are completed within
the next six months.
This means tunnel, vacuum pipe, observing stations, detectors,
scopes, etc., to be placed on the shelf for future six month readiness.
Whether the
same contractors would do the_unhypkenedmothballing is left as a future problem."
As for the interium status of the program
like a compestent
Faller.
to fugrter.
civilian technical
then, nothing was decided and it looks
director must be found is the program is not
:
Mention is also made of a large high explosive program which will be
funded by the military and is to study X-ray effects.