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KGS:
Well, it was primaraljyy the relationship hetween Hamilton
and Seabord, who was right up at the top in producing
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elements and fsotopes.
SSH:
Well, plutonium had been produced7on the 60", had it not,
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ifor the first cima?
KGS:
Well, I guess it had, for physical experiments.
wasn't enough to use in animals.
them, 11 milligrams of plutonium.
But that
(and1 was given, through
It's in that plutonium
reprint. Uitierpro!
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—KGS+____Sweetter—theekground-neise}—~SSH:
Now who would have
been responsible for making a decision
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to have plutonium set aside for biologicals?
KGS:
SSH: .
KGS:
Hamilton, through Seaborg.
GYwould
Stone have played any role in that?
No, he was completely out of GeFthat part of it.
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He was
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in Chicago and later Oakwell.
SSH:
freer
Do you suppose Hamilton would have written to Seaborg
and said, “Please give me a piece for biological experiments?”
KGS:
SSH:
KGS:
Yes.. That's how we got all fissionable materials, which
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we eventually did and published on. That included S.werits sn~
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and. neptunium and go on.
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_Was that done by telephone, do-you-euppose?” think
You couldn't make a phone call and have it stick.
strictly top secret stuff.
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