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Storage Facilities will be adequate to store the entire national
stockpile through June 1962,
17. Ballistics test range,
Negotiations were begun with
officials of the Navajo tribe at Winslow, Arizona, for lease of
approximately 40,000 acres of desert land on the Navajo
reservation for use as a ballistics test range.
At the range,
measurements, would be made of separation characteristics of
unarmed bombs and missiles from high speed aircraft and of
trajectory so that separation techniques, weapon shapes, and
other factors may be evaluated,
18, The Winslow range would provide capability not only for
testing weapon shapes dropped from current aircraft but from
higher speed aircraft of the future.
Tt 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
Tonopeh range which was established on an interim basis in
1956.
19. Cons‘uetion.
Expansion of weapon research and
development facilities at the University of California Radiation
Leboratory at Livermore was 42 percent complete and essentially
on schedule cn June 30,
Construction of the Sigma Building at
Los Alamos wes 35 percent complete and slightly behind schedule,
20, The 1958 plant expansion of ACF Industries, Inc., at
Albuquerque was 34 percent complete and on schedule,
This plant
produces cases from thermonuclear weapons,
21, Design of the building end supporting facilities for a
5-megawatt reactor for testing weapon components by Sandia
Corporation in Albuquerque Was started,
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