-6capabilities.
His informal list of those underground tests and experiments as
well as such other things as @rion which LASL would think of doing if they could
Bradbury's statements
on the laboratory's momentum and personnel and budgeting within the moratorium as
to how this momentum has changed with no testing possible and how he feels if
might change in the next few years, is particularly interesting.
He is very
specific about the kinds of questions and objectives and decisions that he feels
should be raised and detailed in order to better define the direction of the
laboratory for the immediate future and to better utilize the personnel.
Also,
his views on the need to maintain specific devices and capabilities in readiness
for testing are very significant and his estimates of the difference between
maintaining something of a well-defined readiness capability vs. just carrying
on the weapons development and keeping people busy.
Finally,
in the area of
seismic detection, he clearly sees very little involvement in this by LASL
personnel,
A 4& Aug. 1960 memo from ALOO to Starbird gives some interesting numbers that
indicate the weapon laboratory contribution to the stockpile over the next few
years.
It is particular significant in showing what the laboratories, LASL and
Livermore, have done up to this time in completing designs that the military has
accepted and put in stockpile.
Thus even though the trend is for Livermore to get slightly
more contribution each year, LASL still would have contributed more than 90% to
the national stockpile at that time.