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

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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

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