its custedy problems except as Army individuals are being used by the Armed Forces Special Weapons Projecte The Arny anticipates no very difficult problems connected with custody of atomic weapons when they are turned over to the Army in the theaters . (3) Surveillance (a) Army assistance to the Atomic Fnergy Commission in surveillance is heing furnished through the Armed Forces Special “Weapons Prajecte See . . a s task falls to the Army in the theater or elsewhere, “ (4) Maintena:ics and Modification eb (a) : ) =C) . Army assistance in the maintenance and modifications of Army designed atomic weapons will be furnished through the Armed C Ferzes Spacial Weapons Project in the continental United ~ States and will be assumed by the Army in the theater, co eta oi 7 Bo é All of this aytivity will be much more exveditiously handled “ye : Experience and competence is available whenever this adiiristratively if the full responsibility for maintenance, ; . modification, surveillance, and custody is made the respon sitility of the armed Forces Special Weapons Project acting ( ) A a for the joint Chiefs ef Staff. ds Weapons 7 wo “. BEST AVAILABLE COPY Performance (a) Specialist: in the Army technical services have frequently been called on in the past to assist the Atomic Ehergy Commission in performance tests of atomic weapons, and similar Re Seng ) te et = 3 PACT cs C help will always be available to the Atomic Rnergy Commission. Effects aa 3 ) F (a) Every Army technical service has participated to some extent a in the study of the effects of atomic weapons, sometimes at 7 the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, sometimes over ‘9 wt “ta the ebjections of the contractors to the Atomic Energy Commission, Inasmuch as the effects of atomic weapons are of “primary interest to the military, it is anticipated that the ~ 9- COPIED/DOE SANDIA RG SH