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STATEMENT BY THE CHATRMAN, U.S. WEOMIC ERERGL COMMISSION In recent days Joint Task Force 132, operating for the Department
of Defense and the United States Atomic Energy Comiission has: detonated
an experimental device at Eniwetok Atoll in.the Marshall islends.
This detonation was one in our 1952 scrics which, like the 1951
sorios, looks toward further develepment of varicus types of weapons
releasing the energy resulting from fission of-huevy clements or
fusion of light clemcnts. The tests are heing conducted undor the
full security restrictions of the Atomic Energy actéind no further’
facts on them will he issuod@.
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<n the presence of threats to the peace of the world and in
the absence of effective and enforceahle arrangements for the
control of armaments, the United States Government must continue’
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for the defense of the free world. At tho same
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Government is oushing with wide and growing success its studies
directed toward utilizing theso energies for the productive purposss
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