“3 PART TIT a | PONS Le. CLASSIFICATION C OR CHENSED TO . WLU. BY AUTHORITY OF GES Hee BY ce ccccceceee-paTeu’2.78A 1, The highlights of the thermonuclear and Pission weapon programs during the last six months are these: a, Design release of three deliverable thermonuclear weapon prototypes, to be tested in the Pacific, March-April 195s and to enter stockpile during January -~June 1954: stehtes poatees seequrmdeyjepte-snWAMIPAAEESRMEATEETANARONIEATIRRAAARpenStStik eG Head? Fo ABN Lede anne rants ETOH Thermonuclear Weapons Program 2. The two-fold objectives of the thermonuclear weapons program. as stated in the preceding Progress Peport continue to be: . First, achieving as quickly as possible an emergency capability ts _ . aa deliver early-design thermonuclear weapons, and, second, creating over a longer term improved-design thermonuclear weepons which are lighten, end more easily delivered, or possibly of higher | 3.2 The immediate focal point of the thermonuclear program has been the preparation for Operation CASTLE, scheduled to begin a: sian oa Melee oP yield, that the emergency capability prototypes, wets document contains restrdoted data as fined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, tts transmittal or the disclosure of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is-prohibited,. z aye ae Part Ir moe . gyoifyPIE ‘2[5 oy OF : smaller.