WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT
3. A feasibility btudy was completed and the Department of
Defense requested a deVé lopment program for a warhead for the
Falcon missile and. the Davy) Obdckett recoilless rifle and other
weapons in the Battle Group Atomic Weapon System.
hy A aévelopment program was estabiished at the request
of the Department of Defense for a laydowm version of the Class C
thermonuclear bomb, TX-46,
5. As a result of Operation HARDTACK tests, the AEC determined /
that the
Eee
device will be weaponized for the
Class B thermonuclear bomb, TX-41, with yields of,
for the conventional version and.
fetried
tid
\for the "clean"
version,
6. The
pfer
test of the XW-35 wavhead for Intermedi-
ate Range and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles »esulted ina
yield of
mon ry
pensa bw
bie
Inasmuch as a slightly better yield can
be obtained in the same weight class using the Mark 49 warhead
with.
a)
the XW-35 progrem was canceled.
7. The weapons laboratories,
Ios Alamos Scientific Labora-
tory, Sandia Laboratory, and University of California Radiation
laboratory at Livermore, were informed that the President directed
that every effort should be made to maintain the vigor of the
laboratories and weapons development progress during the period
of the nuclear weapons tests suspension.
8. New light weight weapons, now in research or development,
require detonators which will meet severe weight and space limitations,
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(See also Part II of