the Paducah camlex.
In addition, a third gaseous aifusion camplex was
erected at Portsmouth, Ohio.
To increase plutonium production two new
large reactors were added to the Hanford complex. 18
Edward Teller, meanwhile, continued to press for a second weapon
research laboratory.
Failing to convince the Commission, he took his
campaign to the Joint Committee on Atcmic Energy and the Department of
Defense.
By late March 1952, he had won so many allies that the Cemmis-
sion concluded it would have to build another weapon research laboratory.
The Commission picked Livermore, California as the site and by
September the laboratory was a reality.9
As the Commission activated its second weapon laboratory the pace
o= testing accelerated.
The proximity of the Nevada Test Site to Ios
Alamos allowed laboratory scientists to ccmmute easily between test
series and laboratory planning.
a third continental
By April 1, 1952, the Commission began
series of weapon tests,
Again the yields were relatively small.
Military effects
tests
called Tumbler-Snapver.
Again the Commission conducted
and units of soldiers maneuvered across the
desert after several shots.
At Tumbler-Snapper, however, the Commission
shared radiological safety responsibility for the soldiers with the
Army.
For the first time the Commission invited a limited maumer of
newsmen to witness and film the April 22, 1952 shot inorder to give the
American people
first-hand knowledge of
an
atomic explosion.
The
Commission had finally completed permanent facilities at the test site
and
had
established
an
extensive
off-site
radiation
monitorinc
network, 2°
The
monitoring
network,
which
could
track
fallout
across
tre
nation, had been established by the Commission's division of biolocy and
medicine.
The division provided the Commission with advice from medical