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Although the ABC expresse

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Little interest in addition

Director agreed to consider these particul
a

ic

projects

the

,

:l

projects provided

r

the AFSWP could furnish necessary personne to carry them out.
l
At Colonel Cooney's sungesti

on

the arsuF therefor

took steps to

e

contact Dr, Lauriston Taylor, National Bureau of Standards to see if
he would undertak

the measuren

ent

e

A meeting was held with ~

of the gamm: intensit

y

versus tine.

Taylor, Dr, Andrews, Dr. Graves, Colonel

Cooney and Dr, Scoville te discuss this project on the following day.
Dr. Taylor azreed to lock into the possibili

ties

as soon as possible

and submit a progran

Attempts were also made to have saze of the other

.

projects carried out by various service groups.

On U, October 1947

Dr, Taylor submitted a suggested method of measurii the xara intensity
y
versus time,
infermat

io:

Unfortun

uatel:

Dr. Taylor did nob have availaul

e

as to the intemil
c

nt

te be meocsred so fiat the reroblan:

ies

aprojred sore difficui

sufficie

thu was wurrconie

l,

On 17 October 16.7 Dr. Taylor's prom alias fomaniet to Dr,
Froman with a revised prosra. for all nuclour radiatio

n

o-xsurem

ents.

This outline included methods of carrying out the various mofects in
some detail,
radiatio

n

Because of the interest in the importan
o t
t
ce f he herml

from a medical viewpoin

t

a project on its mea:vrem

ert

by

means of heat sensitive papers, to be suprlied by Dr. Willian: Penny,
British Ministry of Supply, was inchiulet

—,

,

On 21 Octover 1947 Dr, Framan cammente on the nuclear vadiatio
n
d
projects

,

arprovin

g

some of these and disappro

ving

others.

Since it

was felt that sev eral of these projects vere of vital imortance to

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