ANNEX "A"
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Washington 25, D.C.
FEBRUARY 18, 1952
NO.
LI 5-6700
180-52
Ext. 53201
53176
JOINT TASK FORCE 132 TO CONDUCT NEW SERIES
OF TESTS AT ENIWETOK PROVING GROUNDS
The Department of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission announced today that preparations for a new series
of tests at the Commission's Eniwetok Proving Grounds are being
carried out by Joint Task Force 132,
Full security restrictions of the Atomic Energy Act apply
to preparations for and time of the test.
Joint Task Force 132, composed of personnel of the AEC,
Army, Navy and Air Force, is responsible for carrying out the
test operations at Eniwetok,
Major General Perey W. Clarkson,
Deputy Commander, United States Army Forces in the Pacific, is
the Commander of the Joint Task Force,
Deputy Commanders are:
Dr. Alvin C. Graves, Director of the Test Division for the Los
Alamos Scientific Luboratory, Deputy for Scientific Matters;
Brigadier General Walter V. Wise, U.S. Air Forces, Deputy for
Air; and Captain James R. Pahl, U.S. Navy, Deputy for Navy.
The
Chicf of Staff is Brigadier General Arthur B. Walk, U.S. Army,
who commanded ground forces during the 1951 test operations at
Eniwetok,
General Clarkson served 2s Deputy Commander of Joint Task
Force 3 during the 1951 Eniwetok tests.
He became Commander of
Joint
Task Force
132
in July 1951.
He
is < native
of San Antonio,
Texas, and was graduated from Texas 4 and M in 1915 where he
majored in Electrical Engineering.
General Clarkson entered the
Army at the outbreak of Wovid War I.
Most of his service in
World War II was in the Pacific, where he was Commander of the
33rd Infantry Division, later Commander of the X Corps and also
served as Deputy Chief of Staff to General MacArthur,
At Eniwetok, construction, maintenance and improvement of
facilities are performed by Holmes end Narver, Los Angeles
engineering and construction firm, under a contract with the
Atomic Energy Commission.
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