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DEPARTMENT OF DEFYENSS~ATOMIC ENERGY. COMMISSION
The Department of Defense and“the Atomic. Energy Coumission be
today announced Joint. Task Force 132 will conduc t*,ao serics of
tests in the autumm months of this year looking toward the ~
develooment of atomic weapons. The tests will he held at the
Commission's Pacific Proving Grounds on Sniwetok atoll of the
Marshall Islands in the Pacific. They will be condugted under
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full security provisions of the Atomic Encrgy act. Lo furthor “-
_setgitsregarding them will be issued priortothe testsey. Only
official ohservers of the United States Government and fiGmbers
of the task force will be present at the tests. The organiza-
tion of Jcint Task force 132 under the command of kaj.General
Percy Ne Clarkson was announced February 18, 1952.