KNOTHOLE, under the cognizance of the Department of Defense, will
include a test of weapons effects and an operational test of the
‘artillery-fired atomic projectile (Mark 9).
12.
The
two operations will be run concurrently.
Other Tests
13.
Additional full-scale tests are tentatively planned as
follows:
a.
Operation CASTLE (Pacific Proving Ground,
late 1953 or early 1954).
The purpose of this operation is to test several large yield thermonuclear
devices, including one or more deliverable designs,
Bikini Atoll has been approved 4s an auxiliary test
location supplementing Eniwetok, and one or more of
the tests in this series will probably te carried
out there.
be.
Operation DOMINO (Nevada Froving Ground,
spring of 1954 or fall of 1653, depending on CASTLE
schedule).
Tne purpose
is
to test new cevelornments
in fission weapon field and components of thermonuclear weapons within the limits of the yields permissible in Nevada,
¢.
Operation REDWING (Pacific Proving Ground,
1954 or 1955).
Furpose:
Thermonuclear weapons test,
weapon Production and Stockpiling
DOE ARCHIVES
aA
Weapons in Stockpile
14,
In the stockpile now are the following anplosion-type
bombs end nuclear components,
with indicated
interchangeable cores:
Weepon
Merk 4
Mark 5
Merk 6
Merk 7
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