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16. Work at the Rocky Flats plant (Project APPLE),
Denver,
Colorado,
is proceeding satisfactorily.
nuclear cores is to begin there in April,
1952.
near
Assembly of
The plant is
scheduled to be completed in January, 1953.
Weapon Development
thermonuclear Program
17.
Theoretical work,
as well as an extensive amount of
laboratory experimental work,
problem.
in May,
has continued on the thermonuclear
The result of the two thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok
1951,
and of the subsequent investigation is that the
decision has been made to construct
a4 large-scale experimental
thermonuclear device and test it at Eniwetok in the fall of 1952
(Operation IVY).
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