Word: gac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question whether the GAC was unanimous in its opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb, Dr. Oppenheimer had additional difficulty...
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...
Robb: You testified that you had no intimation from Dr. Seaborg prior to the GAC meeting of October 29, 1949, as to what his views on the subject were. I am going to show you a letter . . . dated October 14, 1949, addressed to you, signed "Glenn Seaborg," and ask you whether you received that letter prior to the meeting of October...
...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...
...Within a few weeks. There had been a lot of back pressure built up, I think, primarily from the Advisory Committee [the GAC...