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GaFwe'a collect the precipitate and count that and
there's practically no mass involved.
SSH:
"we," who is “we?"
KGS:
Well 4a-thet—case;—'wetey I had a few men from the Army
assigned to me, and that was “we.” -Gtséferd-HWeszea—
SSH:
And they presumably had chemical backgrounds?
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No, they were straight out of the service? I'@4train them,
KGS;
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One of them,
a
Kermit Larson;great big Swede from
orthern plies stete _
womeuhare) I've forgotten nowprbecane very useful to then
at UCLA when they had a radiation lab there.
Stafford
Warren was always involved in various explosions and tests
of one kind or another.
SSE:
Why Stafford Warren?
Tea!yhat was his background that
made him He.ogical ‘one for that role?
KGS:
Well, he wag a radiologistp-in the first place, a very
“early day radiologist, who was a Yolonet in the Army.
Gchhe was assigned to the Manhattan Bistrict.
When
he was alBikini, he stayed on the same ship they gave
me quarters in, the Haven.
SSH:
KGS:
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Gnbe was literally my boss.
Did Hamilton have any role in the Bikinif[est ;
Adaue.
eS, he was flying back and forth we saw him,
I think,once or twice.
Once he brought us a bottle of
bourbon. The only bad thing about Bikini was there was +0
able liquor ye used to drink laboratory alcohol
and lemon juice powddr in a K ration. (an¥this beefed