FIRST SESSION (July 12, 1954) ee The Committees met (at the Sandia Laboratory) at 8:10 a.m. Sandia members except Dr. Wigner were present. Briefings |. ' were present, ALL The Secretary and Mr, Tomei In addition, other groups |as noted in Appendix C, and - menbers of the Sandia staff attended, _ The session was opened by Mr. James W. McRae, who welcomed the Sandia visitors and remarked briefly on the Sandia Laboratory and its status. Laboratory He mentioned that the past year had been marked by the consolidation of the staff into groups and that the staff size had levelled off at 5300-5400 people. About 45% of the laboratory's effort is devoted to production activities, 55% to research and development, He classified the latter as follows: specific weapons development and design, 53%; field testing, 18%; quality assurance, 13%; research, 11%; and information services, 5%, The first two presentations were to be cn weapons . development and design. | Mr. L. A, Hopkins discussed missile applications. Vissil ine at the start the severity of the logistics problems involved in the use of missile-borne atomic warheads, and said it was time to reconsider the stockpiling of complete warheads, Possible rcelvas Zesiles He emphasized Mr. Hopkins showed slides pictur- ing various missiles, and discussed each in turn, After commenting on the Honest John rocket (Army) and the Navy depth bomb, he mentioned the following as possible carriers for thermonuclear weapons; Rascal; Regulus-2 (500 mile range); Snark (one mile accuracy at 5000 miles); Redstone; ‘avaho II; and Atlas. He said it was urgent to decide whether EOE ARCHIVES C