-22Some Considerations in Support of
the Technical Cooperation Program
Géneral
i.
The British have for many generations been producers of great
inventions and scientific advances, They still are. For examples .
discovery of electron, neutron, artificial transmutation, etc.,
development of the jet engine.
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Failing to get help in reactor technology from us, other countries
are turning to Britain, France, Holland for help. This includes
Belgium, which controls the Congo ores. |
We will take an awful licking if and when the USSR offers to
help other countries with industrial power information, and
possibly fissionable materials,
Our foreign trading position, particularly with respect to ore,
profits from the operation of this program, and suffers when the
exchange of information is curtailed.
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By withholding reactor technology, we force its development abroad
instead of maintaining a reliance of other nations on the U.S.
Specific
1.
We have reaped great advantage in our Krypton intelligence program
2.
There is reason to think that our bomb debris intelligence program
as a result of information received from the British. |
(especially with respect to Joe-3) would be advanced by information
which the British have as a result of their Montebello test shot,
Our intelligence on "mesh", bearing on the question whether Russia
has U-235, has been advanced by technical information obtained from
the British.
The flat plate fuel element is a Canadian idea which we should develop
jointly. If this is successful, it could lead to more than doubling
the output of Savannah River.
The British have developed a "fumeless" process for dissolving hot
slugs, permitting retention of Krypton.
is obviously of interest to us.
All information on this
Sir W. G. Penney not only made great contributions to our banb
‘rogram at Los Alamos, but is without doubt the leading expert
on weapons effects.
His knowledge of weapons effects would
undoubtedly be valuable to us.
DOE ARCHIVES,
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