Арб: Арб2 1992-2 ECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1952 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman JOHN H. KERR, North Carolina ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico E. H. HEDRICK, West Virginia PRINCE H. PRESTON, JR., Georgia OTTO E. PASSMAN, Louisiana LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan DANIEL J. FLOOD, Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER C. MCGRATH, New York SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois FOSTER FURCOLO, Massachusetts FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota ALFRED D. SIEMINSKI, New Jersey JOHN TABER, New York RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachuset KARL STEFAN, Nebraska BEN F. JENSEN, Iowa H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York CLIFF CLEVENGER, Ohio EARL WILSON, Indiana NORRIS COTTON, New Hampshire GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania GEORGE B. SCHWABE, Oklahoma SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1952 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATIONS ALBERT THOMAS, Texas, Chairman GORDON DEAN, CHAIRMAN DR. HENRY D. SMYTH, COMMISSIONER THOMAS E. MURRAY, COMMISSIONER M. W. BOYER, GENERAL MANAGER WALTER J. WILLIAMS, DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER MAJ. GEN. THOMAS F. FARRELL, ASSISTAN RICHARD W. COOK, DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF PRODUCTION CURTIS A. NELSON, MANAGER, SAVANNAH RIVER OPERATIONS WILLIAM H. SLATON, SAVANNAH RIVER OPERATIONS OFFICE RODNEY L. SOUTHWICK, DIVISION OF INFORMATION SERVICES F. J. MCCARTHY, JR., DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR BUDGETS Mr. GORE. The committee will come to order. The committee is pleased to have before it Mr. Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; Commissioners Henry D. Smyth and Thomas E. Murray; also Mr. M. W. Boyer, General Manager; Walter J. Williams, Deputy General Manager; Maj Gen. Thomas F. Farrell, Assistant General Manager; Everett L. Hollis, General Counsel; Richard W. Cook, Director, Division of Production; Frank J. Arrotta, Division of Production; Curtis A. Nelson, Manager, Savannah River Operations Office; William Slaton, Savannah River Operations Office; J. Donald McBride, Savannah River OperationsOffice; Capt. Andrew McB. Jackson, Deputy Director, Division of Military Application; Rodney L. Southwick, Division of Information. Services; Oscar S. Smith, Division of Organization and Personnel; Lindsley H. Noble, Controller; and F. J. McCarthy, Jr., Deputy Director for Budgets. You are appearing in connection with a supplemental estimate for $484,240,000, which is contained in House Document No. 238. Mr. Dean, did you arrive this morning by way of atomic air force, or submarine? Mr. DEAN. We did not come up in any fantastic new weapon of the future. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ATOMIC ENERGY Mr. GORE. Well, this committee is charged with the very menial task, unglamorous task, of deciding how many of the taxpayers' dollars shall be spent upon this program. We have been reading a very great deal of information recently which is not quite commensurate with the information which this committee has heretofore received. Would you like to put the committee in focus on such related and unrelated matters? Mr. DEAN. So many things have appeared in the papers in the course of the last 2 or 3 weeks that I think we would have to take them piece by piece. Mr. GORE. We will be glad to have that. Mr. DEAN. A good many of these stories you have read-for example, the fact that the Army has a guided missile of great interest to them, and pictures of that appeared in the paper-that is an Army release, of course- and the Air Force have a similar one which came out about 2 days later, and about 3 days later, I think it was, the Navy release came along which said they had one in the making or on the drawing board which was better than both the Army and Air Force missiles of course, none of those stories came out of our Commission. They have had to do with the development of guided missiles and rockets by the three services. Mr. GORE. It would indicate that, instead of unification, we still have a lot of interservice competition for publicity as well as appropriation of funds. I do not expect you to comment on that. Mr. DEAN. I will say for the guided missile program, that it has had considerable coordination during the course of the last year under the guidance of K. T. Keller, who was brought in by the Secretary of Defense to assign priorities to the various rockets that are on the drawing boards, of which there are many, and guided missiles. I think that is in better shape than it was, certainly, a year ago. In other words, certain of them look promising, and they are concentrat ing on those. Others have been wiped out. So I think they have made some real progress in that field. HYDROGEN BOMB DEVELOPMENT Mr. GORE. How near are you to making a hydrogen bomb? Mr. GORE. It is quite all right for it to be off the record, but all of this mystic gazing into the crystal ball leaves the public under an erroneous impression. Mr. DEAN. It certainly does. And we are not comfortable about that, either. One of the difficulties is that every time you correct what |