SECTION IV DOD FROGRALIS Scoville, N. Kingsley, G. Blunda, et al sanornarn8 a H. SNERAL DISCUSSION \, Ae | Ogle,2Wagan the discussion by remariing that he had read the papers on the DCDXtnat.ser and thought it clear that in some cases there may be overlaps bh everal experiments will get the same data, in which case it behooves uf fig correlate this as much as possible. For instddde, we will be doing sone thermal work. We do not plan to do any total thermalmeasurements because we are not convinced that LASL can learn anything fron this work which is applicable to our particular interests. ‘e will robably, measure power-time. Most of the thermal work will be concentrated. the” amd is largely devoted to an understanding of thepphysical processes going on in the air et that This is not et to effects considerations and is probably not of concern to the DOD. j \ i Load on ote time. fa } Probably the only other place wherféj there might be duplication is in the program for measuring total mmber neutrons. There our plans are not at all fixed yet. We are not convinced can make any measurements by techniques used before and get an answer-that we need. This is largely due to the fact that the neutrons, of course, havereemparatively short mean free paths in air and we do not think we can talk of recovering inside 1000 yds frm most of these bombs, so that the error int ed by having to extrapolate back to the bomb probably makes the measurements eq: crude to yield the information we need. Scoville presented a little history on the me as it stands today. An outline of a program was presented to the RDB {6h 17 December. Their new policy is to approve a program in general terms; rather than project by project, so that approval was obtained in De¢ember from the RUB of a rather generalized program covering the measurements thatwere considered necessary as of that time. Since that period, thign ‘projects $9that cight have been discussed in considerable detail with various agench