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Saturday. March 22, 1958, 9:00 a.m,
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Mr. Strauss recalled that this matter had been discussed the
previous day and said that he had called this meeting to obtain
Commission judgment on a very grave decision.
Related to this test shot, Mr. Strauss said, was the President's
recent instruction to accelerate the firing of a specially equipped
satellite now due up next week which would telemeter data on certain
electronic phenomena important for defense purposes. The shortage
of firing teams requires use of the same team for the forthcoming
high altitude TEAK shot at Eniwetok as will be used in firing the
satellite next week, and the importance of the data to our defense
dictates no postponement in the firing of the satellite and the
TEAK shot.
One phenomena of concern in the TEAK shot is the brilliant
flash resulting from large thermal energy release at this elevation.
Anyone looking directly at the flash during its duration (120 Milliseconds) would be permanently blinded.
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