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Letter from E. Lofgren, K. Greisen, D. Hornig, W. Stout and F. Oppenheimer to Mr. J.R. Oppenheimer.

Dated
Jul 25, 1945
Declassified
Nov 6, 1980
Document type
Other
Length
3 pages
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Archive description

Letter from E. Lofgren, K. Greisen, D. Hornig, W. Stout and F. Oppenheimer to Mr. J.R. Oppenheimer.

Document text

Machine-read from the scan, so expect some errors. Lines that couldn’t be read are left out.

Page 1

«a did not acnaidar i t advlaabla to diaaitsa aitfaar Xt^m apeQli^eatlaii or tha arganlaatlon for the daralosneat of a naa nodal flrine syBtea, aa the na«d for auah a aaw caodal v U l pr^ably arlaa only la oooaaotloKi with a oan -nodel at%> flMadifioatioa of tha praaant x>»uait and datoaator la both naoasaary and raduatioa la tte aa^Mltr ar tha Toltaga or both* af flald taola far haadIU< aad af Itfwi—a to ba oaad on dray taata iftlah« aa a rayl I saant, CLTS railabla data tm tha altltuda of flrlag of dvap taata la av4«r ta provids aora ualta far and tha aiplasi^a traia la tba dstooatar*.

Page 2

a. Elthar ao spaxic plugs or a oora rugged dasign of plu^* b* Zargar^ aara roggad loput acoaaetors (fros power aupplias and SiBS parts of this piogiraM ara alraady aadar way likaraas othara will saggsstad swild saaa poasibla la wlsv of tha prasaot partial srldsEaoa (i*a*» laaar aaoror thranhald aad aoB"iaaamu lajag). Itaa 3 i t was fait that ia aU probability aora osald ba gsUad tanard radaatiaa U tlaliw m^mA by oadarstaMiag tha dstails of tha f a i t tin* tka aask ahanU bs iaaladad la oaa ipaap ead ba aoordiaatad althor tnatli^ of aannfaatinpod parta n « stady i tfearashald far datourtara of taala Dialaatzia atraagth af laaalaUoa Ooataat altk nHn fast van aad sadtahaa* ats.

Page 3

Although the funsticms listed In I and II aight well be earried oa in Albuquerc^ue and y respeatiTely, they are Intltaetely eonneoted and scuna wanhanlwa will undoubtedly have to be set up to Iceep thaa In eonstant aoatast m addition to the fuaotioos listed above* the detonator groups have haretofore aalntalned a field service to supply test groups at T with datonatora for speaial and routine purposes* ^ i s sirvlee will of eourse have to eoatinue but would not naeeaearlly have to be isaludad ia the same group aa the other fuaetions Usted* Hia teahaleal raamwafrndatloos of this report are subjest to sonsidarabls ravlaioo* no reaoavendatlona have been made as to peraoansl or organization* gsvm-thalass ws hops the report will ba of aooie help towards ths setting up of a group whoaa respoaslbllity will be the reliable datonatloa of the praaent type of ^dgat.