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Bradbury's feelings at this point in time before the moratorium was a reality
and in light of his feelings about the pressures from the bureaycracy and the
changes in the way attitudes had to be since the advent of Livermore.
this letter all about? I really do not know.

"What is

Primarily I guess it is to apprise

you of various worries - worry that we may become a factory because we don't

have time to keep from being a factory; worry that we may become a factory because
the weapon business is becoming a factory-sort of business; worry that we are not
fulfilling our maximum role for the country - but what is it?; worry that we may
try to get too many commissions to design special bombs for the DOD; worry that
we may not have enough commissions to keep our staff really busy; worry that good
people are getting worried about the real utility of our frenzied design and test
programs; worry that if we don't do this we will be less ‘enthusiastic’ than UCRL;

just worry!"

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