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General Starbird reviewed with the Commissioners the weapons test schedule for Calendar Year 1958 and recommended that one of ‘thetest shots originally scheduled as only a contingency shot no be included as one of the regular test shots. He also said he had not approved a UCRL recommendation that a 20-40 kiloton device be fired underground late in 1%8 to investigate ‘he. technique of testing higher yield devices underground. The Commissioners requested that the GAC’S opinion be obtained:on this particular test before it is definitely postponed for 1993. Mr. Strauss reiterated his concern about the large number of weapons scheduled for testing during Operation HARDTACK and recalled that the President had asked that the Co@ssion e~~~~ some of the twenty-five shots orlginal~v scheduled for Operation HARDTACK . If the contingency shot is added, he said, the total number scheduled will be up to twenty-five again. This, he remarked, seemed to be a reflection of the DOD:S requirement for an Increasing number of different nuclear weapons types.3/ The Commissioners discussed the shots scheduled for 1958 and Mr. Libb requested that the le~ter ko the President concerning 0perat:9n HARDTACK state the amount of off-site fallout which wI1l res”.It from the series. CONFIRMEDTO :I15UNC After further discussion, the Commission: In Appendix llA”,and as revised by the recommendation of- . ,, some 4 underground nuclear tests as indicated in Appendix ll
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as revised, in fall 1958 at the NevadaTest .~ conducting some ten one-point safety tests at the expenditure of special nuclear materials up to the amounts given in Appendix “B” to AEC 952/28, for the HARDTACK and MILLRACE tests and for the one-point safety e. Noted that the list of shots and their objectives, for the HARDTACK and MILLRACE tests and for the one-point safety tests at NTS, will be submitted to the President by letter letter also requests authority to expend the special nuclear materials required for these tests; f. Noted that the Department of Defense wI1.1be informed of the approved test program by letter to the Military Liaison Committee such as that in Appendix “D” to AEC 952/28, g. Noted that the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy will be informed of the approved test program by letter such as that In Appendix “E”, to AEC 952/28, as revised~ after receivi~ Residential authorization to expend the necessary special..... I the latest test plans by appropriate Presidential authorization to expend the necessan nuclear materials; and be infomed of the test plans by appropriate letter after special nuclear materials.