* eet The money would come from FY 54 equipment funds (Dr, Johnson), The continued burden of operating costs must also be considered (Dr. Buckley). , | 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 | oo (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 _