M fl en ; ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION — Ho. pcges of LO Cozice, Ecrtes A, WASHINGTON 28,D.c& * 72977 NOVp.0-2888oe | US DOE ARCHIVES bane Honorable W. Sterling Cole jRe_ Ghairman, Joint Comittee on Atonde Energy Congress of the United States ner GB wn Tits dormiisi tii. ci UNITED STATES . teae- wt a A 9. f- PALA. 326 US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Collection SECRETARIAT ie Box 2 ea : 7S “ 1ad0_ 7 PolderM+R Thecménu clea, it Hee Col Bonet CAR Ee ; y , ba Uy2953,—weAs. indicated in my letter to you of Obbeber 20 rl ov atteapting to obtain the information requested in your letteror 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, and the fact that the Manhattan Engineer District fiscal accounts iy LL — did not segregate procurenent or expenses in a manner whereby the thermonuclear effort can be identified. However, all during the | war years and thereafter theoretical and experimental research had been perforned in the thermonuclear field. Examples ares ~~ Le During the war years a group of 15 senior people and some gon puters headed by Dr. Teller concentrated on a so-called ®"run= away super", 2. A cryogenic research laboratory was established at ‘the Los” 3, Extensive research on light elezent cross sections at low &. Cryogenic research on hydrogen and deuterium was supported at Ohio State University. Alanos Scientific Laboratory ain LGkbee | . . . energies was conducted at the Los Alaros Scientific Laboratory. 5. A thermonuclear conference was held in 1946. &. The first alarm clock ideas were conceived in 1927, although a feasible system was not available at that tims. a De Age #93) le Cpy fr é. sttensZr J | Department of Energy” \ Historian's -Office ARCHIVES CELLED*Be mest ION¢CAN CATt ASSIFI “BLa m a e i Lon boE/o¢ : W wo . mA Ve Toe- / -