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UNITED STATES.
ATOMIC ENERGY . COMMISSION
Washington 255 D.C.
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NEWS MEDIA INVITED TO ATTEND
NINE NUCLEAR TESTS IN NEVADA
Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, t pday
announced for the Commission, the Department of Defense and the Federal
Civil Defense Administration that public news media and a limited number
of representatives of civilian defense orgenizations will observ
nine
of the shots during the 1957 tests beginning on May 15 at the Ne} rada Test
Site.
The tests, in addition to contributing to the development of teapons
for the military defense of the United States and the Free Worldj are
designed to provide important data contributing to a sound and effective
system of civil defense.
All will be low-jield detonetions of f4ssion
devices.
About sixty persons from civil defense organizations will be invited by
the Federal Civil Defense Administration to witness each of the nine tests
to which uncleared observers will be admitted.
Only representatives of recognized United States news media certified
by principal officers of their employing organizations will be adkiitted to
the nine shots.
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