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Robb: Now I have a note here, Doctor, that you testified that there was a surprising unanimity, I believe that was your expression, at the GAC meeting of October 29, 1949, that the United States ought not to take the initiative at that time in an all-out thermonuclear program. Am I correct in my understanding of your testimony...
...letter Dr. Seaborg had said that he "would have to hear some good arguments before I could take on sufficient courage to recommend not going toward" a thermonuclear program. He noted that Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence, director of the radiation laboratory at the University of California, was already proposing to get the program under way. If the GAC were asked to comment on the proposal, he wrote, "It seems to me clearly we should heartily endorse it." Despite this sharp exception to the GAC's "unanimous" stand, Dr. Oppenheimer originally had said that he did not recall the letter...
...Lawrence decided to push for development of the H-bomb. Nearly all of the scientists they reached were enthusiastic and anxious to get the program going, Dr. Alvarez testified. He expected Oppenheimer to be enthusiastic, too, because during World War II Oppenheimer had been anxious to get on with thermonuclear research. But in 1949, in the face of the Soviet threats, he found-Oppenheimer opposed...
...testified that you talked to various individuals about your plan and the plans of others for the development of the thermonuclear weapon in early October 1949. Is that right...
...Elements of the Mystic." Wendell Mitchell Latimer, professor of chemistry at the University of California and associate director of the university's radiation laboratory, painted the same picture as Dr. Alvarez. Dr. Latimer wanted to move ahead with thermonuclear development right after the Russians exploded an atom bomb...