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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,

Select target paragraph3