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Tharmormclear program, Sines the fullescale test of a thernonuclear device at Eniwetok in Rovember 1952, the demediate and primary
objeative of ths Compigalon's weapon program has been to echieve ag
B00n ae poasible emergency capability in a deliverable thermensucicar |
mune “RRSfullescale weapon tests this spring in Nevada included 12
devieus ani were among the moet importent ever beld, having provided
data needed for further thermonuclear development and for a variety of
fiseion wespon problems,
(For detail, wee Table 1, page 10, Part IIT.)
Stoekpils, During 1952 the etcekplle of nuclear aseenbliga grew
rapidly because lerger quantities of fissionable material became avall~
able and the inventory of material in the production pipeline was sharply
reduced to dugment weapon febrication.. (The growth of the stockpile
over the last few yeara, ite composition, sod tha rate of production, as
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* ck step bas heen taken, toward DOR partietpation in the
sivetion wy0 of nonnuclear weapon towponentsa, The President
in Pebrusry 1953 approvedl the ARC~-DOD recomuentiation that he direct the
Coumlosion to authorize the DOD to agsume primary responsibility for the
production of such nomauclear components of qun-ag.
yetype weapond ag
may be agreed to by the tio agencies, The Commigeion has granted this
authorisation for the ortillery-flred projeotile and for on sdvanced
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design of a gun-ussembly bom fer subsurface detonation (p. 15, Part III).