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necessity of the two Livermore devices Pen
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Mr, Strauss asked what will be the latest date by
which the Commission must approve the CASTLE program in
order to conduct it as planned beginning February 1954,
Mir. Graves replied that by the middle to the end of September.
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developmental work on the six devices should have reached a
voint sufficiently advanced to permit the Commission to
Genide on the CASTLE progrem.
General Fields eided that
other factors which will determine the time of an eventual
Commission decision and the time of the start of the test
ave:
the progress of construction at the Eniwetok-Bikini
test site and Li-6 production.
Mr, Graves then briefly described cheng a boosted
fission weapon with yield in the range of ee with
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