SRPA Intelligence Memorandum 25


 * Subject: Successful Nuclear Test at SRPA NT


 * 16-Jun-53


 * ''At 1201 hours yesterday the nuclear research team at SRPA NT, led by Robert
 * ''Oppenheimer, successfully detonated a four kiloton fission bomb. This is the largest
 * ''successful nuclear test ever conducted. The team had conducted tests with much
 * ''smaller yields for several years, but they were unable to produce sufficient quantities
 * ''of enriched uranium to create large energy yields. The project had been sidelined
 * ''while SRPA invested in conventional weapons development and biological research.
 * But with the recent recovery of data from the nuclear reactor in Axbridge,
 * Oppenheimer's team made a series of major breakthroughs. Their construction of a
 * thermal diffusion enrichment plant led a vastly increased quantities of highly enriched
 * uranium. The team is now preparing a six kiloton bomb, codenamed Nellie, for use in
 * Operation Black Eden. The operation is scheduled to begin in nine days.