AF.C—DOD Announcement of Forthcoming Tests
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30 Sep 57
Official information from JIF-7 has been received confirming the
AEC~DOD announcement that Nuclear Tests will be conducted in the Eniwetok
Proving Grounds beginning April 1958.
2. The meaning of the codeword for this operation "HARDTACK", is
unclassified effective 15 September 1957.
3.
All correspondence classified due to the codeword and the fact
that future nuclear tests were planned may now be downgraded to unclassified.
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