The Twenty-fifth Meeting of the General Advisory Committee was
held at the DuPage site of the Argonne National Laboratory on March 15,
16, and 17, 1951,
All members were present at each Session.
The
. Secretary and Mr. Tomei were also present at each Session.
FIRST SESSION
(March 15, 1951)
The Meeting was convened in executive session by the Chairman at
9:30 a.m.
Schedule
The tentative Schedule (Appéndix A) was considered and was
modified so that the Committee could visit the Argonne installations on.
the morning of March 16th.
The remainder of the executive session was
spent in reading the various papers and reports which had been presented
to the Committee,
Los Alamos
Report
At 10:15 a.m. Dr. N. E. Bradbury, Gen. James McCormack, Col. G F.
Schlatter, and Commissioner H, D. Smyth joined the meeting for a discussion of the current weapons program at Los Alamos.
Dr. Bradbury
expressed the degree in which the measurements verified the theory by -
saying "one understands the problem at least 90% = —
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‘Dr. Bradbury reported on the results of Operation Ranger at Las
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Ranger
Tests