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NUCLEAR SAFING AND ARMING
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Implosion
(1) Development
(a)
Army Ordnance is now participating in development tasks in
this area in connection with the development of missiles and
reckets at least to the extent of developing what must be done
to safe or arm the warheads in these vehicles,
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Since such
problems are largely mechanical in nature, competence to solve
them exists in the Ordnance, even to the extent of working on
cored charges, if such assistance to the Atomic Boergy Commissic
became necessary,
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(2) Production
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The Army is not currently involved in the production of nuclear
safing and arming devices for implosion weapons, but there is
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nothing so highly specialized in the nature of such devices
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that Army Ordnance could not assume responsibility for pro-
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ducing these items,
This is particularly true if the safing
device is some sort of time mechanism with which the military
has had extensive experiences
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(1)
Development
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(a) Army Ordnance has been fully responsible for the development
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of the safing and arming for the TX§, and is obviously oom~
petent to extend this effort to similar tasks,
(2) Production
(a)
Army Ordnance is currently responsible for the production of
the nuclear safing and arming devices necessary for the TX-9.
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HIGH EXPLOSIVE
(1) Development,
(a)
Arny Ordnance is not now participating in the development of the
high explosive elements of implosion weapons; however, individuals
involvedin ssn. program
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