WEAPONS The Winslow range would provide capability not only for testing weapon shapes dropped from current aircraft but from higher speed aircraft of the future. It would be operated by Sandia Corporation, which now operates the ballistics ranges at Tonopah, Nevada, and at Salton Sea, California. Use of the proposed range would enable the AEC to end operations at the Tonopah range which was established on an interim basis in 1956, Construction. Expansion of weapon research and development facilities at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Livermore was 42 percent complete and essentially on schedule on June 30. Construction of the Sigma Building at Los Alamos was 35 percent complete and slightly behind schedule. The 1958 plant expansion of ACF Industries, Inc., at Albuquerque was 34 percent complete and on schedule. This plant produces cases for thermonuclear weapons. Design of the building and supporting facilities for a 5-megawatt reactor for testing weapon components by Sandia Corporation in Albuquerque was started. kiee es) DOE ARCHIVES —— = ~ - - - AEC Tectr tea! Elormavoc Service Excrson >a w! Gub Rize, Teraesee *. mr 1- 8 . /