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CHAPTER 1
OBJECTIVES, DEVICES, AND WEAPONS
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LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY*
General Objectives
In Oneration Redwing, ten devices designed by LASL were fired. Some
of these were proof tests of devices suitable as weapons for the national
stockpile, whereas others were experimental devices of a forward-looking
nature which could be weaponized if their performance proved sufficiently
attractive. On euch of these shots diagnostic experiments were made to
evaluate their persarmance if they worked properly, or to determine the
difficulty if they did not.
In addition, many experiments were undertaken to
These included
both Class D weapons for external carriage on fighter planes and for mis-
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siles, and Class C weapons for medium-weight bombers.
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obtain more precise understanding of tue factors and physical propertics
which underlie nuclear weapon design or the effects that they produce.