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A 12 June 59 report is from Harold Argo, Secretary of the newly formed "Buzzer"
—_ et
ommittee.
He describes this as a committee created by Bradbury and Molnar to
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or
study the feasibility of long-range detection of bootleg: weapons tests, and in
articular to develop in more detail the recommendations of the Panofsky report."
he committe Chairman is Tascnek, and the Sandia representatives are Shuster, Cook,
nd Vaughn.
The LASL representatives are Aamodt, Hoerlin, Heller of T-Division,
nd THHXsN Taschek and Argo.
upport various studies.
Additional P-Division personnel are Listed who will
A brief division of responsibility is that LASL will
e concerned with techniques and programs of detecting bomb and background radiations
file Sandia will address ancillary problems such as power requirements, logic,
elemetry, etc.
A tentative outline in some detail of the studies that the ccmmittee
i111 undertake is presented.
Taschek suggested that the committee should address
orking up to the point of development of a prototype instrument but not attempting
® man or operate a world-wide detection system and Sandia agreed.
The group was
o meet for the second time on 19 June 59.
Final documentation in this folder, in May of 61 indicates that the high
ititude sub-group of the ad hoe group on detection of nuclear detonations has
‘ormmed a study group to address the particular area of shielding.
The reports of the 2 sub-committees studying Eniwetok and the "Test When Ready”
concept were submitted on 15 and 23 June.
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