War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; The Weapon of Choice; 102; Operation Greenhouse

If they. Don't win. Tommy when. We talk I know. This just took place in the spring. Nice to see why. It was carried out by the 8500 members of the Joint Task Force. Three. Men drawn from the Atomic Energy Commission has come back from a dusty to a magical when the Army Navy and. Command gently. Force three. Lieutenant General Allen the sub. United sleep. Doctor albums the great Los Alamos scientific laboratory. Deputy Commander joining us for SRI. Lanka the director. Of the. Us. During the tense days of World War 2. An entire American city of Nam

women and children was hidden behind a seemingly unimportant house. FOX 1. 6. 6. 7. Today said secrecy is no longer possible. Today the city boldly and proudly parades the normal pattern of American living. This now appears to be an have read city of schools and playgrounds of houses and apartments a place to live where men and women can feel at home. But for all of these things this city is not an ordinary city. This is the Mile High City of Los Alamos the Atomic City. This is a modern Pueblo created by the people of the United States as a research and development center for atomic weapons. This is still a city where citizens take for granted security fences guards passes caution the

first testing of weapons a routine practiced by now is the job of a busy section of the Los Alamos laboratory called J division. With such a specialized division carrying on tests the other parts of a scientific laboratory operated for the Atomic Energy Commission by the University of California can continue undisturbed in vital research and development work. One of the proving grounds for testing weapons is an outdoor laboratory. And we talk Atoll in the Central Pacific. This Trust Territory of the United States has been used before as a testing ground. For operational science down in 1948. But three years have passed and Sam Stone three years to bring new and improved atomic weapons to this secluded equitorial land this land of space islands arranged like individual beads of a necklace and a new test operation will be called by its code name. Green house. But greenhouse means more than just a proving ground more than a group of scientists from Los

Alamos Operation Green house is big big in logistics big in the scope of its aims and purposes to make this problem a self-contained unit. A task force is organized. This is a four part organization Atomic Energy Commission Army Navy and Air Force working together under a unified command. As for the larger scope of greenhouse It is a real challenge to include in the test all of the valuable experimentation that can come out of the detonation of atomic weapons. The armed services for instance have a continuing need for information on the offensive and defensive effects of atomic blasts in these days of international tension. They need to know the physical results of atomic warfare even though Los Alamos is the parent laboratory so to speak. Scientists and technicians from other government agencies from American industry colleges universities and other organizations throughout the country. Man working in related fields are asked to participate to

help instrumenting the operation. CENTANNI way talk is a distant and primitive area. Men have to leave their stateside laboratories and homes for a period running into months since 1943 when Los Alamos was established. Man from this mesa have left the continental limits of the United States twice before to test the weapons they have created. Now the proving ground comes alive like a university campus when students return from a summer holiday. Perry island is home for task force headquarters for the scientific group. And he will talk island is home base for the army an Air Force. The Navy stays aboard it ships anchored in the middle. These are the dormitories of any We got university spread out and separated from the dorms by a safe distance from other laboratories. The individual test pilot seemingly like so many science buildings on college grounds. The long awaited forward area where it began even in a world of tension.

Atomic energy is more than thunderous test detonations and calculated plan devastation. We still have much to learn of our nuclear fuel uranium and plutonium. This is the precious stuff so valuable it makes sought after goals seem like common scouring powder. Whatever can be done to conserve it is to our national advantage. To protest weapons scientifically and accurately it is necessary to know the behavior inside the weapon and also the know the outside behavior of the forces let loose the effects of the weapon. The facts and figures on blast heat light radiation weapon designers go to great lengths to get this kind of information for example to measure blast instruments are suspended from these plastic below. This gives a pressure reading in free air. High speed cameras capable of taking several million separate pictures per second placed close to zero point they

will record the story of nuclear forces from a vantage point where man himself dares not stand. Radiation will be measured by devices on whose photographic emotions will be and delicately imprinted the record of swift moving invisible nuclear particles. Man a greenhouse tackle and really we talk problems with the same kind of scientific approach they use on their own home laboratories attention to detail elimination of variables and check and double check of the apparatus. This is actually on the spot experimentation. There is no running back home for a forgotten test tube. And then the time comes for which all have worked. H o. M a 0 0 0 in the tower holding the weapon of the moment stands or. The man of Green House move back. Like a crowded beach aware of the incoming tide. They pick up their belongings and retreat to safety. A pest. You. Watch what.

You're. You are. From a wealth of diversified crafts and skills that go into the making of a great industrial country are drawn those men with the specialized skills necessary to understand and measure atomic detonation. But to maintain these men and to carry on a weapons test on a specific outpost support is necessary. Not a lone technical support but the.