TRINITY - 16 July 1945 - Alamogordo, NM - 20 KT
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Ivy Mike - 31 October 1952 - Elugelab - 10.4 MT
Brigadier General Schriever addresses the Von Neumann Committee, fall 1955. Front row (left to right): George McRae, Charles Lindbergh, General Thomas Power, Trevor Gardner, John von Neumann, Colonel Harold Norton, H. Guyford Stever, and Clark Millikan.
“Whoever controls Orion will control the world...� --General Thomas S. Power Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command
Little Feller II - 7 July 1962 - Yucca Flats - .022 KT
NEVADA TEST SITE
UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE GRABLE - 25 May 1953 - Nevada - 15 KT
SEDAN - 6 July 1962 - Nevada Test Site - 104 KT
The enclosed paper is a partial answer to the question 'What does Christopher Robin do in the mornings?'... You will perhaps recognize the mixture of technical wisdom and political innocence with which we came to San Diego in 1958, as similar to the Los Alamos of 1943. You had to learn political wisdom by success, and we by failure. Often I do not know whether to be glad or sorry that we escaped the responsibilities of succeeding. --F.J. Dyson to J.R. Oppenheimer, 17 March 1965
It was such a crazy idea, really. One of those wonderful dreams... Oh, but they had a good time in California, and we went and visited them once and saw one little puff! The little thing went off and then came back with a parachute, at Point Loma... They had fun, but did they really think that it would go? --Francoise Ulam
THANKS (in alphabetical order) to: Air Force Special Weapons Center Bruno Augenstein / RAND Atomic Energy Commission / DOE Jaromir Astl General Atomic / General Atomics James R. Burke Defense Technical Information Center Freeman Dyson Douglas Fouquet Verena Huber-Dyson Institute for Advanced Study Los Alamos National Laboratory Scott Lowther / Aerospace Projects Review Thomas Macken NASA / JPL / MSFC Christopher Sykes / BBC Theodore B. Taylor Francoise Ulam
gdyson@ias.edu