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Dear Genorel Guosada:
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The Atomic Energy Commission has been eble te review briefly your
adrart report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding possible rearrange=<"—~~
ments in the GRESNHOUSE program to meet the realities of the military
situation in the Pacific.
ve have noted thet the Los Alamos Laboratory. is prepared, through
tr. Graves, to reduce the number of test sites from four te three, and
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to defer the target date to April 15, 1951, and we spprove these
chenges,. We arc confident further that Or. traves has given careful
attention to other possible sevings in Amued Ferves support, and that
a watehful aye wilh oe kept on the possibility of effecting even
further economies as the situation may develop. We appreciate, too,
that you have sereensd, and will contimue to sereen, the military re-
quirements essential to your tasks, and that the entire operation will
be conducted om an economical basis.
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However, wa would like to emphasise the point that some apparent
econoaies would in fact be false economies, Tho foreseeable gains in
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