ENCLOSURE "B"
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
RADIATION LABORATORY
. BERKELEY 4, CALIFORNIA |
November 24, 1952...
Brig. Gen. K.E. Fields
Atomic Energy Commission
Division of Military Application
Washington, D.C.
Dear General Fields:
As you know, UCRL Livermore spent the first few months of
its existence working out plans and working over ideas to see
what it could do to best carry out its mission of increasing
the effort in the thermoneculear program,
These plans began to
have some semblance of firmness on about November 1,
1952, and
it is only since then that our. engineering and service organiza-
tions have been able to make a study of the feasibility and
possible timing of the proposed weapons research program.
The
proposed device test program was as follows:
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The feasibility and: timing Study of the above program
has brought out the followingpoints:
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I.
The Operation Upshot program ean be carried
out as planned barring major accidents or unexpected
difficulties in processing.
Enclosure "B”