© oof” President Robert Gordon Sproul University of California Berkeley 4, California | page 2 In view of these chroumstances I am therefore presuming to request on behalf of the Navy Department that you authorize Professors Overstreet and Jacobson to participate in this summer's expedition to Bikini as leaders of the radio-chemical group of the project. I realize that euch participation may involve considerable personal inconvenience to these scientists and also may delay other valuable work planned by the University, but I respectfully urge that the importance of the work at Bikini, both to basic science and to problems of national defense, justify a diversion of the time and energies of Professors Overstreet and Jacobson during the coming three months. Sincerely yours, /s/ Jems Forrestal ccs Dean Hutchinson College of Agriculture University of California ‘Berkeley, California Mr. David Lilienthal Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission Washington, D. C. Dean Stefford L. Warren College of Medicine University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, California