with the design ef radiating fuses since there is such a wealth
of radar experience in that organization,
Signal Corps experts
have recently participated in the Rebecca project and, as a re~
sult, have submitted a proposal to the Atomic nergy Commisai on
for a complete redesign of the Ml fuze.
Army Ordnance has
accumulated experience in this field in their work on prexinity
fuzes,
The principal Ordnance contractor, the Bureau of
Standards, has been participating for some time on the radiating
Luze development program of the Atomic Fnergy Commissions
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fuzes, but procurement assistance is furnished for sme fuze
components on the request of the Atomic Energy Commissions
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amount of work in microbarometric studies that could be applied
to assist in milving this fuze problem,
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