ry GUE AAD IP Ar 16. Work at the Rocky Flats plant (Project APPLE), Denver, Colorado, is proceeding satisfactorily. nuclear cores is to begin there in April, 1952. near Assembly of The plant is scheduled to be completed in January, 1953. Weapon Development thermonuclear Program 17. Theoretical work, as well as an extensive amount of laboratory experimental work, problem. in May, has continued on the thermonuclear The result of the two thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok 1951, and of the subsequent investigation is that the decision has been made to construct a4 large-scale experimental thermonuclear device and test it at Eniwetok in the fall of 1952 (Operation IVY). CR eTIESE ReeNIE Sb