EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

White Sands Missile Range, located in southern New Mexico, is the largest and most highly instrumented range of its kind. It supports missile develop-"ment and test programs for the Army, Navy, Air Force, the National Aeronautics und Spf,.c Administration, and other organizations. Established in 1945, the main rai.ge, excluding extension areas, covers nearly 4,000 square miles and includs-, the 230 square mile White Sands National Monument. The Utah Lpunch Complex in Green River, Utah, is a subitistallation to White Sands that is now inactive. Both the missile range and the launch complex are under the operational control of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command. The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on the northern part of the range on July 16, 1945. The location of the blast, Trinity Site, is a National Historic Landmark. The American V-2 rocket program began at White Sands less than a year later, and a total of 67 V-2 rockets were tested betwee