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WEAPONS
Summary
1.
Stockpiling of the following new fission weapons began
during the period of this report:
Mark 5 - 4S-inch diameter implosion bomb
Mark 6 - Improved 6Q-ineh diameter implosion bomb
Mark & - Penetrating bomb
Prototype Mark 7 - 30-inch diameter implosion bomb
Prototype Mark 9 -~ Artillery-fired atomic prejectile.
Stockpiling of regular Mark 7 and Mark 9 vroduction models is
scheduled to begin during the next two or three months.
Production
of these new weapons will continue until stockpile requirements
ere met.
2.
Good progress was made in the construction of the large
yield thermonuclear device to be tested at Eniwetok eorly in
Novemper,
1952.
The entire thermonuclear program is being pressed
vigorously and plans are being made to test a second large yield
thermonuclear device of different design in the fall of 1953.
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This document contains restricted data as
defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.
Its transmittal or the disclosure of its
contents in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited.
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