* eet
The money would come from FY 54 equipment funds (Dr, Johnson),
The continued burden of operating costs must also be considered
(Dr. Buckley).
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br. Johnson next discussed the controlled thermonuclear reactions |
program, known as MProjedt Sherwood!
~Con-.
trolled
Thermonuclear
He indicated that the Gowmtostoncre
and also the Joas were bakcing. a great interest in the subject.: He
Reactions reviewed the various technical ideas, and mentioned that GP. Thompson
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(England) had filed a secretpatent on a device very much like that, of a
idk. He also said that Christophilus at Brookhavenhas. some ideas but.ae
ds not allowed to work on them (Secretary! Note: for security
a
clearance reasons),
“At 3:10 p.m. Dr. von Neumann returned,
Dr, _Jomson proposed to organize the effort so as to leaveit.
decentralized, and support people on what they wanted to do.
Heplanned.
to set up a steering committee, consisting of Teller, Spitzer, Tuck, aoe
good engineer, and a "down-to-earth! physicist to advise ‘the Division of cen
Regearch.
The question of classification was troublesome. Initially the“york
Classi-
fication
of GonSrolled
Thermo-=}
nuclear
Reaction
Program
was Top Secret, then it was made Secret and highly conpartuentalized.
a result of the compartmentalization classified seminars on the subject
had been stopped, and some embarrassment had resulted, _ There was a
tengthy discussion of the problem of classification; ‘the Committee reached
no consensus, . Dr. Rabi, reversing his earlier opinion favored a high a
classification.
His argument was ‘that. largesuns are being ‘spent with .
practical ends inview. _ Support on this scale implies a considered _