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Title:
LETTER TO W H LANGHAM, SUBJECT: LETTER RE THE EARLY EXPERIMENTS WITH PLUTONIUM
Author(s):
PROSSER, C L [UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS]
Subject Terms:
HREX; OTHER ISOTOPES; PLUTONIUM
Document Location:
Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV
Document Type:
CORRESPONDENCE, LETTERS, MEMOS
Publication Date:
1971 May 07
Declassification Status:
Never classified
Document Pages:
0001
Accession Number:
NV0710262
Originating Research Org.:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
OpenNet Entry Date:
1995 Feb 17
OpenNet Modified Date:
2012 May 14
Description/Abstract:
PROSSER WRITES LANGHAM SAYING THAT HE HAS DESTROYED ALL HIS FILES FROM HIS EARLIER DAYS AT THE MET LAB. HE RECALLS FROM MEMORY THAT HAMILTON RECEIVED PLUTONIUM A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THEY DID AT THE MET LAB FOR ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS. PROSSER NOTES THAT THEIR EXPERIMENTS INJECTING PLUTONIUM IN MICE STARTED IN 1944. LATER THEY WERE THE FIRST TO INJECT PLUTONIUM IN DOGS AND GOATS; THUS, DATA FROM MICE STUDIES COULD BE EXTRAPOLATED TO LARGER ANIMALS. THE EXPERIMENTS USING BEAGLE DOGS BEGAN IN 1945.