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ARMED FORCES: Top Secret

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TIME

A corner of the security curtain surrounding the nation’s atomic proving grounds on Eniwetok was lifted last week. Congressional members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy were invited to fly out soon for new atomic tests. There were no further details. But knowing Hawaiians, who had watched the ships of Atomic Task Force Seven steam westward out of Pearl Harbor a month ago, guessed that initial phases of the tests might already be under way.

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