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has a strong capability and a strong interest, are a prerequisite to
The
what Dr, Bradbury is trying to do.
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Revolution
in Weapons
Dr, Rabi commented in this vein, saying that Dr. Bradbury's remarks
and the ..
Growing had made clear the complete revolution which has occurred in atomic
Importance
of
weapons. There will be very little resemblance between the situation
Sandia
.
two years from now and that two years ago. Dr. Rabi remarked on the
maturity of the weapons art, the great prominence that systems engineer-,
ing must now have, and its intimate relation to missions and to the
stockpile.
The duty of ensuring the most effective use of weapons, and
of developing a general phLlosophy o« f weapon utilization will devolve
more and more on Sandia,
‘There were several comments on the need for encouraging and
Need for utilizing Sandia's capability and interest in sysvems engineering.
Encourag- .
oe
ing
Some members had gathered that the new Area Manager was not providing .
Systems
.
Studies such encouragement. There | was some discussion of the matter. The
Committee did not feel it would be appropriate to make formal comment
at present; however it was hoped thatways would be found tO encourage
this vital work,
The feeling was expressed that the Committee should
manifest a lively and continuing interes* in the work of the Sandia
Laboratory.
It was remarked that the Sandia presentations were in general very
good, although the weapon effect presentation was poor,
probably a case of having misjudged the audience.
The latter was
There was also
some disappointment about the to-do raised by Sandia on the difficulties
of contact fuzing.
However the significance of this was difficult to
oy
Sandia
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at