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“change of success ‘and would eghve a higher yield, but would be
dependent on Lithtume6 production,

Meanwhile, in the Spring and

Sumer of 1953, the Air Force indleated the importame of red
ing the weight of thermnuclear wemons for dclivery by the B-li7,

a medium bomber being produced in large numbers, and for deliver
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by the Hustler, a new medium bombar urvier development. E

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The program for thermonuclear development, testing, and

emergency capability have been coing foruard with great emphasis
and speed.

The importance of these prograns is increased by the

fant that the Soviet Union conducted an atoalc tast on ‘ugust 12,

953,. that involved both fission and thermonuclear reactions
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flanos among representatives of the Atomle knergy Commission,

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