Development achievements in fission weapons have included:
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Status of Thermonuclear Development in Mid-1953
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“Engineeringof these devices intomanageable,practical, andconvenient bombswill'be the
major developmental objective.
In planning its work for 1948, LASL noted that there were on-site activities in regard
to thermonuclear reactions and that they would be somewhat reduced in keeping with neces-
sity to firm up" the then existing knowledge of fission weapons and in keeping with the
peace-time philosophy of a studied, scientific approach to developmental problems.
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plan recorded, however, that thermonuclear "work will continue on theoretical calculations
and on experimental observations of appropriate nuclear constants."
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