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Show j Postponements Described in Nevada Tests I . There have been 59 postpone- ments for weather and technical reasons In the period May 15 to Aug. 10 of the current Plumbbob series at Nevada Test Site,.dur-ing Site,.dur-ing which 11 full scale tests have been fired and a twelfth has been ready for the past 11 days. The postponements summarized summariz-ed here do not include various re schedulings, but do include those taken after arrival of an adjusted readiness date. Thirteen postponements have been for "technical" reasons, including in-cluding non-readiness of scientific scienti-fic experiments, non-functioning of such experiments on late sig-nal sig-nal runs, and other items such as the failure of a balloon wind gauge. One of the technical postponements post-ponements was the misfire on Diablo, June 28. Forty-six postpon nents have resulted from forecast or actual wind conditions which could have resulted in radioactive fallout fall-out on occupied places In the test site region which the Nevada Neva-da Test organization considered unacceptable. Of these, 38 have been announced before midnight and eight in after-midnight hours of shot mornings. Boltzmann, the tower shot scheduled first In the series and ready for firing May 16, was postponed 12 times for unacceptable unaccep-table weather before being detonated de-tonated on May 28. Shasta, the tower shot which was ready for firing July 30, had also been postponed 12 times for unacceptable weather as of Aug. 10. It is also noted that In the first five series in Nevada, involving in-volving 45 full scale detonations, detona-tions, there were approximately 103 postponements of which 80 were caused by unacceptable wind and weather conditions. |