sais Foe yes Hahelt ww Peess THERHee yo 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. The Cormisston informed the MLC thet it desires 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8 gun-essembly tyde weapon and the Mark 9 280-millimeter atomic projectile nad been retired from stockpile, and had been replaced by the improved Mart 11 end si rr 3 S S <4 WEAPONS DESIGN AND tl respectively. 0 bi Mark 19 weapons, 7. During the April-June querter, the following vtr peer b. A warhead for the Navy Sparrow-X air-to-eir guided missile, The weapon will be 11.75 inches in