UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C, FOR PRESS AND RADIO 409167 FOR RELEASE AT 7:00 P.M. (EST) No. 225 Tel. ST. 8000, Brs. 307, 308 Tuesday, November 29, 1949 NEW SERIES OF TESTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS IS PLANNED The Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission have advised the President that a new series of tests of atomic weapons is planned at the Commission's Proving Ground at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Pull security restrictions as required by the Atomic Energy Act apply to all aspects of test preparations, including the time BEST COPY AVAILABLE of the tests. As in past atomic weapons test projects, the field opera- tions will be carried out by a Joint Task Force, “ommission. Lieut. Joint Task Force-3, Navy, Gen. Air Force, Elwood R. and the Atomic Energy Quesada, USAF, will command which has been formed to carry out the new test program. General Quesada will have as deputies, Brig. Herbert Loper, Army, Rear Admiral Tom B. Alvin C. Hill, Navy, and Dr. Graves of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. of Staff is Brig. Gen, John K. Gen. Chief Gerhart, USAF. The Commission rorently announced a contract with Holmes and Narver, Los Angeles enzineering and construction firm, for main- tenance and improvement of facilities at the Eniwetok Proving Ground, bX be-// personnel of Army, composed of Military and Naval units participating in the current work at the Proving Ground will be a part of Joint fask Force-3. REPOSITORY batt Ja-1-H 7 a coutection ~_Csllege ‘Pack 326, 46-5! BOX No. 122 (ww3- 326-4 “or rower 421-+liwove) (o reen house Wd