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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
RESUME OF JOINT PROOF TEST COMMITTER PLANNING
PRINCIPLES FOR GREENHOUSE
Report by the Director of Military Application
1.

Phe Joint Proof Test Committee is preparing a plan for

GREENHOUSE to be. submitted to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for
approval, and,

ultimately,

to the Atomic Energy Commission for

concurrence and/or comment,

It is desired to provide the Com-

mission with prior information of the principles upon which the
plan is pased,

in order to facilitate and expedite Commission

consideration and approval of the formal paper.

It is now

estimated that the formal plan may be received early in December

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3. The experiments have been grouped into eight major
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These are:

Program 1 - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Experiments

Program 2 - Biomedical Program (Joint AEC-Dept. of
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Program 3 - Department of Defense Structures
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