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Dear Mr. Strauss:
of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and AEC and LASL staff.
Our comments and recommendations follow.
1. U-233 Program, After a lengthy and lively discussion, it became
clear that Program "B", providing for the production of U-233 and the
suitable adjustment of other production schedules, as outlined by Gen.
Fields would furnish, according to the best ave
complete answer to the
weapons; that this program
involved Tittle or no addatonal cost in
weapons or in money; that this program was not an irretrievable commitment but could easily be reversed; that the availability of U-233 would
most likely be of importance in other weapon programs; that the use of
thorium would lessen our dependence on foreign supplies of raw materials;
that there is no other easy way presently known to remedy the aa
weapons.
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For these reasons we unanimously recommend the immediate initiation
of Program "B" with such modifications as may appear desirable after
further discussion and after consultation with the duPont Company.
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with the Director of the Division of Military Application, the Director
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Commission Chairman for an important discussion of the U-233 program
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The first three days were devoted to briefings by the Sandia
Corporation, the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and the Livermore
Laboratory in connection with a simultaneous visit by the Military
Liaison Committee to the AEC, the Defense Department's Coordinating
Committee on Atomic Energy and its Technical Advisory Panel
The 15th
was devoted to a meeting of the GAC with Commission and Los Alamos
At this time, we had the benefit of ‘the presence of the
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Herewith is the summary report of the 41st Meeting of the General
Advisory Committee held in Los Alamos and at the Sandia Corporation in
Albuquerque on July 12, 13, 14, and 15, 1954. All members with the
exception of Dr. Wigner were in attendance,
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Mr, Lewis L, Strauss, Chairman
U.S, Atomic Energy Commission
Washington 25, D Cy
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