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4, Initial safety criteria for the storage and handling
of sealed-pit weapons containing plutonium were developed by
the Joint Board on Future Storage of Atomic Weapons, approved
by the Military Liaison Committee, and concurred in by the AEC.
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to have nuclear
safety criterta revicwed annually.
5. The weapons Quality Assurance Program, which was desimed
cso ensure satisfactory auality and conformance with desim
criteria for weapons and weapons components, is being medified
to include the new sealed-pit concept.
An AEC-~Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project agreement was signed providing military
Jiate na with the Quality Assurance Program.
6. By the end of June the Mark 8 gun-essembly tyde weapon
and the Mark 9 280-millimeter atomic projectile nad been retired
from stockpile, and had been replaced by the improved Mart 11 end
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