Mr, Murphree felt that two types of conferences might be heldy Ons:
type would be a ‘straight technical conference, and the second type would Oo
be primarily to discuss the President's Plan.
Mr. Murphree questioned fhe
desirability of trying to cover bothtypes of conferences in one meeting :
due to the different nature of the people that would be involved in.‘the.
two types of discussion; a straight technical conference was favored/”
Mr, Strauss wondered how the President's Plan got intothe Tater
national Conference discussion, and Dr, Rabi replied that there was a
question as to whether the Plan should be & part. of the Conferences
Dr. Buckleyfelt enthusiastic about the President s Plan.
However,
he felt that a scientific. conference was not a place to work out the
implementation of the President's Plan,
Dr. Rabi felt that the President's Plan wouldcome up at the Con
ference in one way or another, and therefore one should be prepared for
it.
He said the reason for having the meeting abroad was that the pres~
sure for giving things would be very much less,
.
Mr, Strauss thanked the Committee members for their advice, and said :
that he found it most helpful,
Dr. Rabi said that there was an opinion within the GAC that the ComDirector
of
Classi-~
fication
mission should try to get someone from inside the AEC organizationtore~
place Dr, Beckerley.
Generally, he said, the GAC feels that the AEG doss
not make enough use of such people,
Luke a good recommendation,
Mr, Whitman and wr, Murphreegave Dre
The names of F. C, Vonderlage (ORNL),F, de
Hoffmann (LASL), and Hoylande D, Young (ANL) were mentioned by individual
GAC members as the kind of people they had in mind for the job.
(Appendix
B, item 5)
Dr. Rabi expressed the Committes's appreciation for the very fine
CASTLE
Tests
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briefing on the CASTLE tests,
He said that each of the members was
gratified at the success of the tests.
(Appendix B, item 8)