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plants are operating.
These facilities produce high explosives
for the Marks 5, 6 and 7, and perform final assembly of the
nonnuclear components of these weapons for delivery to stockpile.
Construction of the Rocky Flats plant, Colorado, for the design,
fabrication, assembly and inspection of nuclear cores, was 60
percent complete at the end of October,
Inspection and assembly
of cores continued in a part of the plant, and initial operation
will occur progressively in other parts as construction is completed.
Over-all construction completion is scheduled for April
1953, and all parts of the
plant will be operating by July 1953.
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DOE ARCHIVES
Participation by DOD in Weapon Froduction
26.
Thus far participation by the Department of Defense in
the development and production of atomic weapons hes been confined
to work on specific components,
such as the. Ordnance Department, have been engazed as con-
tractors in @ manner similar to AEC's arrangements with
dustry.
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DOD,
In these cases agencies of the
Responsibility for funds and program direction hes rested with
the Commission.
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