President Robert Gordon Sproul
University of California
Berkeley 4, California
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In view of these ciroumstances I am therefore presuming to
request on behalf of the Navy Department that you authorize Professors
Overstreet and Jacobson to participate in this summer's expedition to Bikini
as leaders of the radio-chemical group of the project. I realize that such
participation may involve considerable personal inconvenience to these
scientists and also may delay other valuable work planned by the University,
but I respeotfully urge that the importance of the work at Bikini, both to
basic science and to problems of national defense, justify a diversion of
the time and energies of Professors Overstreet and Jacobson during the
coming three months.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ James Forrestal
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Dean Hutchinson
College of Agriculture
University of California
Berkeley, California
Mr. David Lilienthal
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Washington, D. C.
Dean Stefford L. Warren
College of Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California