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Show Atomic Proving Ground Set For Nuclear Test Ranchers, miners, migrants. Itivate fliers, and others con cerned are warned that the Atomic Knergy Commission's Nevada proving grounds will be used in the near future for nuclear nuc-lear experiments and that the area is closed to all unauthor-persons. unauthor-persons. The 1953 Spring tests, announced an-nounced by the commission Jan. 23, will begin this month and continue for an unannounced period. Experience during the three previous test series conducted con-ducted at the Proving Grounds has proven that nuclear testing can be carried out with adequate assurance of safety under the conditions and controls prevail ing there. However, this assurance can be extended only to authorized per sons who may be near the NI'G boundaries or who pass inside the limits of the Proving Grounds during or after the nuclear tests may expose themselves to serious seri-ous danger. The test organization is making mak-ing every possible effort to clear all unauthorized persons from the area well in advance of the first nuclear experiment this month. Test personnel are contacting con-tacting officials, newspapers and radio stations, and individuals in surrounding counties to enlist assistance in warning all unauthorized un-authorized jxT'-ons away from the site; these isits include mining min-ing properties and all known ranches and camps. Patrols and guard stations ar being maintained main-tained to keep unauthorized persons per-sons off the site. Helicopters and light planes will patrol the area. It is also probable that immediately im-mediately preceding some tests temporary road blocks mav be , establishetl on U. S. lligfmjiy 9i rx'tween Las Vegas and Bcattjr, and on U. S. Highway S3 lw-tween lw-tween Las Vegas and Caliente, ut I points where flash of the d-tofH ation might conceivably endanger endan-ger the safety of drivers by detracting de-tracting them or temporarily impairing im-pairing their vision. Any travelers travel-ers halted by such a roadblock would experience only a slight delay. |