. Pe oo) ‘ ‘ t z ™ a OE LS a aan ate ‘ Sy any t La . ti” =~ d Pe pee eitot re PE = pteae CTR, ATOMIC ENERGY.COMMISSION NEWS MEDIA INVITED TO ATTEND NINE NUCLEAR TESTS IN NEVADA lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, today announced for the Commission, the Department of Defense and the Federal Civil Defense Administration that public news media and a limited number of representatives of civilian defense orgenizations will observe nine of the shots during the 1957 tests beginning on May 15 at the Neyede Test Site. The tests, in addition to contributing to the development of weapons for the military defense of the United Stetes and the Free World, are designed to provide importamt data contributing to a sound and effective system of civil defense. All will be low-yeld detonations of fifbsion devices. About sixty persons from civil defense organizations will be iivited by the Federal Civil Defense Administration to witness each of the nj ine tests to which uncleared observers will be admitted. Only representatives of recognized United States news media cex tified by principal officers of their employing organizations will be adn itted to the nine shots. (more )