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On 12 Dec. Betts sent a TWX to Bradbury in regard to a letter from the
DDR&E to Seaborg on 1 Dec. That letter referred to the gray area of
responsibility for certain types of test measurements between the DOD and
the AEC. The problem area has to do with a particular effects test which
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the DOD felt was being generated by LASL for the Army and hadn't been properly
handled in that DASA should have responsibility for arranging and planning
for effects tests as this was felt to be. The letter from DDR&E to Seaborg
discusses in a little detail the historical and legal division between
responsibilities for weapons tests diagnostics that affect performance and
design of the weapon as being the AEC responsibility and output measurements
and measurement of effects caused by weapons output as being the DOD responsi-
bility.
Betts is asking Bradbury for assistance in preparing the -Chairman's
response to the DDR&E letter and is taking the approach that this particular
device, which is a warhead for the Nike Zeus, must have the military characteristics and in particular the neutron output spectrum verified and that therefore this is actually a test for diagnostic measurements that affect performance and design of the weapon. Not only does Betts feel that there is misunderstanding between whether this is a development test or an effects test,
or a test by some other name, but that also there was a question as to where
the request for the test came and that Betts feels that it came from the DOD
to the AEC and not as alledged from the Army directly to LASL.