OOCUMENT SOURCE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office Records Series Title jor * File Code No. Carton nie. older y No Nets © i, A, A é 0 Dates Te el aiid teeth itil Raa, ier 55 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? ‘nach +0 No, they were straight out of the service? I'@4train them, KGS; ' e ; ece———_—-tea ” And | some of them bedf™e ve Ty successful, 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: . 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