Archive image from page 114 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 The Manhattan and Elsie Projects 105 Pivot mounting for the Elsie gun still intact. rid of. At that time, we still visualized that we would be active as a design and development activity because we had many requests to consider other designs for atomic devices. When these MARK 8 bombs were declared surplus, they asked us if we wanted them, and we decided to take them. They had to be shipped across the country from Albuquerque on a special train which had marine guards. At that time, the Dahlgren railway was
Archive image from page 114 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 The Manhattan and Elsie Projects 105 Pivot mounting for the Elsie gun still intact. rid of. At that time, we still visualized that we would be active as a design and development activity because we had many requests to consider other designs for atomic devices. When these MARK 8 bombs were declared surplus, they asked us if we wanted them, and we decided to take them. They had to be shipped across the country from Albuquerque on a special train which had marine guards. At that time, the Dahlgren railway was still active. When the train finally pulled into Dahlgren, there were probably a half-dozen passenger cars for the marines to live on and a couple of freight cars full of atomic bombs. They parked the train, and of course everyone in the area was curious about why the train was there with armed marines. The bombs were unloaded and put in the magazine area. Did the marines know what they were guarding'? I think they did because the officer in charge of the marines, when they got here, was looking for somebody to turn the material over to, and I told him, 'You can give it to me.' He hardly believed me because he wanted to turn them over to some military type, not a civilian. I finally convinced him that he could be relieved of the responsibility. / guess information about them is downgraded by now. The weapons are no longer supersecret, I suppose. At that time, they were classified SECRET-RESTRICTED DATA. This is more secret than SECRET by quite a lot—sort of like TOP SECRET. Later, I think they were downgraded to SECRET. Anything with SECRET-RESTRICTED DATA was guarded very carefully.
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