~ 19 The Impact of the Present State of Affairs: What Should the Research
Program in the Physical, Geological, Biological, and Medical Sciences
Be? (oral, inserts, bibliography)
a,
Information sources and distribution
1.
Do and must private researcn gcoups depend on the government, particularly the AEC, for most of their data’ To
what extent does the depth and breadth of the research
program rest on what the government is doing and on what
the government is willing to turn over to private research
institutions?
Is scientific information adequately and promptly distributed and available?
To what extent are government classification and other
information-withholding mechanisms interfering with the
distribution of information to the public and to scientific
groups?
How much and what kind of data on radioactive fallout
remains classified? What justification is given by AEC
and other government agencies for continued classification
of such information? How much effort does the government
make to let it be known that material has been declassified
after that action has actually occurred?
Is information exchange occurring properly between the
U. S. and foreign countries and the U. N.? Is the U. S.
adequately represented on international scientific and
policy-making groups related to this problem?
B.
The Research Program:
active fallout?
l.
what is the extent of research cn radic--
Is the AEC presented with a conflict of interest when it
is required to act on the one hand as an agent in develop-
ing nuclear weapons, and on the other hand as an agent in
providing safeguards against weapon hazards? If a conflict
does exist, what would be effective ways of removing or at
least minimizing it?
How much of the research is being done by the government
and how much by private research groups under government
sponsorships and with government funds?
JCAE
Are there serious soft spots in either the experimental or
theoretical aspects of the sciences related to fallout; in
particular are there any that limit a thorough understanding
of the civilian and military implications of fallout?
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ns.
Ade
Hew well is the research program in balance?
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