PART III
WEAPONS
WEAPONS PRODUCTION
1. Seventy percent of the weapons scheduled for production
duringfiscal year 1957 were produced ard deliveres vO stockrile
asofMarch 31,
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Tritium production is sufficient to meet gas bocsting
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requirements for weapons during this veriod.
2,
Initial units of ‘the improved,
light-weight version of
the Clas: C thermonuclear bomb (Mark 39) were produced in
February, end production requirements for the Class C thermonuclear
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bomb (Mark 15) were completed in February.
3, Production requirements for emergency carabdility units
of the sealed-pit implosion warnead
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XV-25,
for use with the Air Force MB-1 air-to-air rocket, were met in
December 1956,
and deliveries were made to the Dersrtment of
Defense in January and February.
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