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ENCLOSURE
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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION”
ARMED FORCES PARTICIPATION IN PROOF TESTING OPERATIONS
OF ATOMIC WEAPONS
Report by the Director of Military Application
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1.
THE PROBLEM
To reply to a request of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
through the Military Liaison Committee for the views or conc
rence of the Atomic Energy Commission on a report by the Jol
Proof Test Committee,
and to recommend other appropriate col
lateral action.
FACTS
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In the letter dated July 28, (Appendix "D") asgist:
was requested from the Armed Forces in support of the forth-
coming proof testing operations.
The members of the staff :
the Atomic Energy Commission were at that time made availabl«
discuss these matters with the service agencies concerned.
In reply to this request the Joint Chiefs of Staff
established the Joint Proof Test Committee with two ex offic:
embers,
one appointed by the Military Liaison Committee and
other by the Atomic Energy Commission, 1f desired by the Com
Captain James S. Russell was appointed as the Commis
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sion's representative on this Committee.
Other members were
Lt. General J. E. Hull, Major General W.-E, Kepner, Rear Adm:
i 8. Parsons,
and (representing the Military Liaison Commit:
I.colonel z. H, Hinds.
Captain Russell, and, as appropriate,
‘other representatives of the Commission's staff and the Los
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