a
Although the ABC expresse
d
Scientif
UHCLASS)FIED
,
Little interest in addition
Director agreed to consider these particul
a
ic
projects
the
,
:l
projects provided
r
the AFSWP could furnish necessary personne to carry them out.
l
At Colonel Cooney's sungesti
on
the arsuF therefor
took steps to
e
contact Dr, Lauriston Taylor, National Bureau of Standards to see if
he would undertak
the measuren
ent
e
A meeting was held with ~
of the gamm: intensit
y
versus tine.
Taylor, Dr, Andrews, Dr. Graves, Colonel
Cooney and Dr, Scoville te discuss this project on the following day.
Dr. Taylor azreed to lock into the possibili
ties
as soon as possible
and submit a progran
Attempts were also made to have saze of the other
.
projects carried out by various service groups.
On U, October 1947
Dr, Taylor submitted a suggested method of measurii the xara intensity
y
versus time,
infermat
io:
Unfortun
uatel:
Dr. Taylor did nob have availaul
e
as to the intemil
c
nt
te be meocsred so fiat the reroblan:
ies
aprojred sore difficui
sufficie
thu was wurrconie
l,
On 17 October 16.7 Dr. Taylor's prom alias fomaniet to Dr,
Froman with a revised prosra. for all nuclour radiatio
n
o-xsurem
ents.
This outline included methods of carrying out the various mofects in
some detail,
radiatio
n
Because of the interest in the importan
o t
t
ce f he herml
from a medical viewpoin
t
a project on its mea:vrem
ert
by
means of heat sensitive papers, to be suprlied by Dr. Willian: Penny,
British Ministry of Supply, was inchiulet
—,
,
On 21 Octover 1947 Dr, Framan cammente on the nuclear vadiatio
n
d
projects
,
arprovin
g
some of these and disappro
ving
others.
Since it
was felt that sev eral of these projects vere of vital imortance to
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