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Dr, Rabi said that the GAC endorsed the proposed Presidential
Citation
for Los
Alamos
citation for Los Alamos but suggested some changes in the language.
Dr,
Buckley then expressed some misgivings in maicing a citation like this on
the thermonuclear’ program.
There followed some discussion on the: possible
effect that such a edtation might
mi
have on the other laboratories,
It
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Was finally agreed that no repercussions from the other laboratories were
to: be.“expebted, (Appendix By item8)
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Dr. Rabi said. that the GAC had been informed that the fall-out
Fall-out
posults were about what the scaling laws would predict, He reported that
b
the acreage covered by fall-out by a particular activity is propottionaloe
to the yield of the weapon,
He then discussed briefly the differende
between the fall-out from the barge and coral shots,
In particular he pointed out that large explosions id fireballs high
would cause little fall-out, while small explosions where the cloud. did
not go above the rain strata would cause high fall-out,
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Dr. Rabi reported further that he was convinced that the explosion
‘of large bombs makes no real changes in the weather, except for local
perturbations,
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“He said that the GAC recommends that further studies be made toward
understanding the process of fall-out and of obtaining more precise
information on its extent, including the medium-range and long-range.
studies of the Aureole and Sunshine type,
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Dr. Smyth inquired whether we should have continued studies of the
ocean, Dr, von Neumann agreed, but stated that the results on the ocean
are probably not as important as the land results.
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