calling for cessation of tests but were able to get it watered
down to an appeal to the United Nations and to include all
nations capable of conducting tests.
8, Also, during March, 1956, the United Nations Disarmament Commission Subcommittee is holding session.
activity cannot be forecast with any certainty.
Test
However,
beginning in April there will be British tests, Operation
REDWING begins in May and will extend well into the summer.
9. Meanshile,
the military requirements for nuclear
weapons have grown and the diversity of their application
calls for increasing research and development. In Operation
REDWING,
for example,
it is necessary to proof test an atomic
Warhead for air-to-air missiles
to be used in air defense.
10. In Operation REDWING, as in previous tests, the
Information Plan must insure that all information officially
released will be issued within the limits of national security
and that advance precautions will be taken to prevent inad-~
vertent disclosure by test personnel or observers of information
adverse to the security or general interests of the United
States.
ll. Official issuances through March 1, 1956, have been
the initial joint AEC - Department of Defense announcement
and statement by the Chairman of the AEC issued January 12,
1956 and the announcement of the Danger Area,
1956 (attached as Annex to Appendix "A").
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issued March l,
With the exception
of editorial criticism in Great Britain, the first two were
treated relatively routinely abroad, with considerable emphasis
on the statement that the aetonations would be smaller in yield
than in 1954,
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Appendix "Aa".