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over-water shots appears sufficiently low to permit firing at
the close time
intervais anticipated.
The
instrumentation
mounted on the islands could, if not damaged, service three
shots probably as well as two,
13, The CASTLE program recommended in this paper is believed to be the maximum practicable program,
% covers all
available possibilities for providing an emergency capability
and should furnish an excellent basis for the future development of thermonuclear weapons.’
CONCLUSIONS
15, Any alternative plan such as postponing a portion of:
the shots until the Pall of 1954 would be wasteful, costly, and
harmful te either the immediate "emergency capability” program
or future progress in the field of thermonuclear weapons,
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16, The magnitude and complexity of a seven shot program
is not to be underestimated, but must be reconed with in view
of the
importance of thermonuclear weapon progress,
It there-
fore appears ill-advised to consider anything short of a maximum
effort for the CASTLE program,
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Enclosure "A"