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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
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FOR RELEASE IN MORNING. NEWSPAPERS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1957
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AEC TO CONDUCT 1957 TEST SERIES IN NEVADA
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A series of low-yield nuclear tests will be conducted at the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test
Site with the cooperation of the Department of Defense and
beginning in late Spring 1957. Tests of high-yield devices
are not conducted in Nevada.
The program of tests is aimed to attain new knowl-
edge important to the defense of the United States and the
Free World, which must be maintained pending ultimate attainment of international agreement on safeguarded disarmament.
The development of weapons for defense against attack is a
major objective.
Studies of weapons effects will also be continued in order to improve military and civil defense against
nuclear attack. The Federal Civil Defense Administration will
participate in the series.
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An extensive radiation monitoring network will again
be used during the series. About 12 monitoring teams supplied
by the U. S. Public Health Service will be stationed in communities near the test site.
In addition, the U. S. Public
Health Service network of monitors in about 40 cities across
the nation, established prior to the last Eniwetok test series
in the Spring of 1956, will be in operation.
Radiological
monitoring also will be conducted at 12 Commission installations.
About 100 U. S. Weather Bureau stations will cooperate
in the program.
The 1957 test series will be called "Operation
PLUMBBOB". When finally established, the scheduled date
for the beginning of the series will be announced.
A termination date cannot be definitely announced at this time.
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