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UNITED STATES
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
Washington 25, D. GC.
WA
No.
Tel.
1067
ST 3-8000
Ext.
307
FOR RELEASE IN MORNING NEWSPAPERS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1957
STATEMENT BY THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
Progress continues to be made in the Atomic Energy
Commission's program of developing nuclear weapons having
maximum effect in the immediate area of the target but with
greatly reduced widespread radiological fallout.
Such weapons will become part of the United States
stockpile of nuclear weapons for various military applica=
tions.
The efforts of scientists in the Commission's
weapons laboratories are being directed toward the development of such cleaner weapons and the success thus far
achieved has convinced us that widespread hazard from fallout is not a necessary complement to the employment of large
nuclear weapons.
Laboratory and testing activities have confirmed
the important objectives which were stated by the President
at his news conference on April 25, 1956, when he stated
that this country’s testing program was aimed at the development of a variety of weapons to serve a wide range of military
uses including defense against air attack.
On that occasion
he stated that there also was the objective of making weapons
with reduced fallout.
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the AEC, on July 19,
1956, following his return from the REDWING test series at
the Eniwetok Proving Grounds, said that "many factors, including operational ones, make it possible to localize to an
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