Bradbury notes the Hood problem which has occup
ied a major portion. of the
weapons effort of the laboratory over the last
six months and notes that
experiments will supplement the theoretical
results to date as they are done
over the latter part of 1960.
In the area of weapons development, in addition to the
specific devices on which work is being done,
the lab will work on obtaining
maximum yield from various weight ranges as well as working toward "clean" designs,
pure fusion weapons, sub-kiloton weapons, and techniques of nuclear safing.
For some reason, there are no 1960 entries in these folders.
Interestingly, a
9 Jan. 61 budget letter from Bradbury shows the revised estimates for the labs
FY 61 and 62 budgets. The 61 figure is 68.5 million and the 62 figure is 77.5
million, which corr@late to about the same levels shown in an earlier budget letter
however,
Note
they are a year later.
that there are no further of the standard annual and semi-annual program
reports and mid-year reviews in these files as there had been up through the end
of 1959.
Here is the "final report on the phasedown of U.S. Army Task Group 7.2,
Operation Switch," dated 31 Dec. 1959 which reports on the details of the transfer
from the Army functions at the EPG |to AEC control and contains highlights such as, wh
effective 1 Dec. 1959, the Commander of the 4951st was designated the JTF~7
representative at the EPG vice the Commander of the Army Task Group 7.2.
Also,
as of 17 Jan., Task Group 7.2 transferred to Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, and
personnel were released and reassigned by the Army.
Note that the Navy planning during the early moratorium period referred to the
Wahoo tests done during Hardtack and referred also to planning for similar tests:
in the future under the name Wahoo Prime.