Here are copies of communications between the Chairman of the AEC and the
Secretary of Defense on_22Apr. from the AEC to the DOD and back on 16 May.
The
subject is possible caretaker status for the EPG and possible transfer to PMR.
Both men agree that the EPG should not be retained as a nuclear test facility
except on a caretaker basis and the Secretary of Defense has told PMR to confer
with ALOO in the near future to arrange for the transfer to PMR by 1 July 1960
and the possible use of H&N employees to provide certain services after the
transfer.
Note that the TAC mission in June went on as scheduled.
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A 25 April TWX from Bradbury to Starboard answered a query dated 20 April
that listed various possible nuclear energy releases by various titles and
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requested specific definitions for them in ref2tion to the Geneva treaty
being worked on.
Bradbury looked at these as being various degrees of
possibility and various situations versus violating a treaty that said
you couldn't do nuclear weapons tests.
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26 April, sne gives the LASL
The LASL answer to Starbird from Jane Hall on
eG
estimates of the composition of the capsules
nominal yields.
required to
obtain the suggested
ates is plus
She states that the confidence in these yield estim
of yield deterhination using
or minus 10% and that the estimate of accuracy
radial chemical methods is 15 to 20%.
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