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Memorandum for the General Manager - Sunshine Program

1956-02-20 · 1 source pages

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Memorandum for the General Manager - Sunshine Program — opening source page

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Commentary by The Declassified Collection, separate from the original source.

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W. F. Libby, AEC Commissioner

Willard F. Libby, the radiochemist behind radiocarbon dating, served as an Atomic Energy Commissioner from October 1954 to June 1959. The General Manager addressed is Kenneth E. Fields.

The copy list, February 1956

Copies went to the rest of the sitting Commission: Chairman Lewis Strauss and Commissioners Thomas Murray, John von Neumann and Harold Vance. Von Neumann died on 8 February 1957.