unclassified first course, would surely have ruffled feelings.
Dr,
McMillan agreed with Dr. Wigner that difficulties would arise from
national pride if different foreigners were treated differently.
Dr. Rabi did not agree with some of the above points,
He said
that the President has made the proposals for national political
reasons, and that the names of BNL, ANL, and ORNL are magic to these
purposes,
An unclassified school at one of these world-famous
laboratories would be viewed in a quite different light and would
‘have greater prestige than an unclassified course at a university.
He went on to say that we have a law-of-the-land which states what
information can be given to foreigners and what cannot (without bilateral agreements).
.¢
He concluded, therefore, that to serve the
purposes of the President's plan a school must be set up, and that
EErent it must be unclassified.
.
is the location,
The only question at present
In the course of time, with development in bilateral
agreements and in the Gray Area, instruction in classified technology
could be given, possibly in two schools in different buildingsor at
different places,
people differently.
He did not foresee serious difficulties in treating
This is common practice, e.g., in industry, and
at is known that we have agreements with some nations and not with
others,
No consensus was reached,
(Secretary's Note:
(Appendix B, item 2.)
The location of the school did not receive
formal consideration at this meeting, since the individual members
2p,
Kiin
ent
ree