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A supplement to the program letter dated 21 March 58 was written after

Teller took over as Director and goes into possible studies, calculations, tests,
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. and experiments, as well as specific ideas which Livermore has and cannot at
the present pursue due to the limitations on manpower that they have to put on
projects.

After going into several pages of what can be done in each of the major

program areas, Teller concludes “The above enumeration clearly indicates that there
is far more useful work to be done than a laboratory of the present size of UCRL
can possibly do in the immediate future.

This poses the difficult and dangerous

problem of choosing the ultimately most useful and desirable ideas from among the
many promising and in some cases unexplored candidates.

We feel that, at least

at the present level. limitations of funds should not be the determining factor

in our ability to pursue some of this work."
: First pertinent entry is dated 21 March 1958 and mentions plans for

test operations as follows: Millrace at NTS in fall of 1958, Trumpet |
at NTS In spring of 1959, and Willow at Eniwetok in spring of 1960.

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