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Mr, Strauss a sked what will be the latest date by
vinich the Comnission must approve the CASTLE program in
order ta conduct it as planned beginning February 1954,
Me. Graves re plied that by the middle to the end of September.
developmental work on the six devices should have reached a
point sufficiently advanced to permit the Commission to
deride on the CASTLE program.
General Fields added that
other factors which wil} determine the time of an eventual
Commission decision and the time of the start of the test
are:
the progress of construction at the Eniwetok-Bikini
test site and Li-6 production.