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October 2, 1953, dealing with annual expenditures on the therm
nuclear program, As you suspected it is extremely difficult teidentify these expenditures, particularly during the war years and
even up through 1949. Briefly, the problems encountered sre the
impossibility of properly reflecting the use of military persomel,
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thermonuclear effort can be identified. However, all during the |
war years and thereafter theoretical and experimental research
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puters headed by Dr. Teller concentrated on a so-called ®"run=
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