partially enriched in lithiu.-6, The latter wuld havo a bottor chants of success and would cive a higher yield, bat would be dependent on 1ithiun-6 production, Heaméiile, in the Spring and Sumer of 1953, the Air Force indicated the inportame ‘of reduce ing the weight of therronucleer weinons for delivery by the B-h?, a nediwa bonber being produced in large mmbers, anj for delivery by the Mustler, a new nediua bomber under doveloxmnte Los Alenos responded by proposing thet the enriched.ia: scaled dam to about a 3/ scale version called th 2 with a2 reduction in weight fron 42,000 to 25,003 pounds. an. te “egf, umer design for only e& fow mnths, enginecring for has been farction ae and delivery 1s not es far advanced as in the case of the a... wiich are the cuergency capability Se “aD 4 e procrnt for themonaclear developicnt, testing, cnd energe:.cy capability have been going forwerd with great enshasis end speed, the & vance of these nrograis is increased by the fact that the Soviet Union condicted an atonic test on /uzust 12, 1953, that involved both fission and thermomuclesr reaction, DISCUSSION 6, Follownz a meeting on Sestucber 17, 1953, at Los 5 ca : iimoes e-pnzg representatives of the stole Energy Comission, _— -s Tos flacos, Util-livernore, ss Chg . & : : " O2!: Bisse, ond Jeirt TosForce . OY go 3 & -oe 8 ac MLS SP