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The Department of Defense has asked about the possibility of
reducing the fission yield in the large thermonuclear weapons.
This
is being investigated,
In the field of fission weapons the MK-13 has been cancelled, with
fission
Weapons
DOD egreement.
This wes the improved KK-6 60" weapon.
TZAPOT
Test
TEAPOT, scheduled to start February 15, 1955 at the Nevada Proving
The AEC has proposed and the President has approved Test Operation
Ground,
KT.
Tentatively, twelve shots are proposed, four of them over 25
Gen. Fields reviewed the list (given in a document before the
Committee, memorandum Gen. K. E, Fields to Chsirman, GAC, Septerber 16,