Dr. Edward Teller
Radiation Laboratories
University of California
Berkeley 4, California

Dear Edward:

I am writing this note to introduce my good friend Bruno de Leusse from the French Foreign Office. Monsieur de Leusse has just spent a year at the Center for International Affairs here and is now taking a trip through the United States. He is a man of some influence in the French Foreign Office and I am sure you would find his views interesting and congenial. He has expressed a strong desire to meet you and though I know how busy you are, I would consider it a great personal favor if you could give him a chance to chat with you.

It has been much too long since we had a chance to talk. I wish you well in your various enterprises.

With warm regards.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY
P. O. BOX 808
LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA

September 11, 1959

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Associate Director
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

I am on my way to New York City where I hope to see Roswell Perkins Tuesday evening. I am sorry that you will not be able to be there.

Instead, would it be possible for you to come out and visit us in Livermore? Not only would I like to talk with you, but I feel strongly that it would make a lot of sense for you to get acquainted with a few of our top people. It might be easiest to make the arrangement in such a way that you give us a talk here on any subject you like, but preferably on your favorite subject, "Limited Nuclear War". Actually General Heath has (to my greatest delight) made the suggestion that you might give this particular talk and so it is the most natural thing for me to do officially what I have tried to do unofficially for some time, namely, to invite you to come out here at your early convenience.

I hope very much that you can arrange to come when I am here and for that reason I give you my schedule. I return to the Laboratory on the 18th and, except for commitments in the Bay Area, I have no plans to be away from the Laboratory until October 13th, when I leave for an extended trip which will keep me away until November 10th. I expect to be at the Laboratory thereafter in November and December except for the week of November 15th, when I will be on the East Coast.

So that you will able to talk freely with our people, I suggest that you have your clearance transferred to Livermore for your visit through the AEC, Division of Military Application, channels. Unfortunately we do not have funds to offer much in honorariums, but the Laboratory would be pleased to pay your travel expenses and offer an honorarium of $75.00 for the day.

I look forward to seeing you in Livermore at your early convenience.

December 10, 1959

Dr. Edward Teller
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
University of California
P.O. Box 808
Livermore, California

Dear Edward:

Thank you for your letter and the
various insertions for your report. They
have proven very helpful and you will see
the results, I hope, over the next few months.
I will check with you from time to time on
specific points if you will permit me to do
so.

About my visit to Livermore; it now
appears that Monday, April 4th, would be best
for me. I could spend until at least 2:00
p.m. with you. Since I have to make my plans,
I would appreciate it if you could let me
know as soon as possible if this date is con-
venient for you.

It was a great pleasure to have you
at our house.

With kind regards.

DNA RESEARCH
ROOM 629
10 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
NEW YORK 20, NEW YORK

January 27, 1960

Dr. Edward Teller
University of California
Radiation Laboratories
Livermore, California

Dear Dr. Teller:

Before Dr. Kissinger left for a quick trip to Europe he asked me to send you a note in answer to your letter of January 11. He will be happy to speak to Ham Armstrong at FOREIGN AFFAIRS concerning Freeman Dyson's article.

Dr. Kissinger will return at the end of the week and plans to be in New York early in February.

NH:cg

February 17, 1960

Dr. Edward Teller
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
P.O. Box 808
Livermore, California

Dear Edward:

This is just a note to let you
know that April 4th is the date I will be
visiting Livermore, and that the 9th was a
typographical error. I am sorry if this has
caused you any inconvenience.

I am looking forward very much to
seeing you.

With kind regards.

February 18, 1960

Dear Edward:

This is just a note to let you
know that I must catch a plane to Portland
during the afternoon of the 4th of April,
so that I will be able to visit Livermore
in the morning and early afternoon.

With kind regards.

2nd Draft

October 2, 1959

# PLAN FOR A
JOHN VON NEUMANN MEMORIAL CENTER

## I. Introduction

With John von Neumann's death our Country lost one of the most incisive and
universal intellects, in the world. His contributions ranged from the foundations
of mathematics to the formulation of the laws of atoms, from game theory and
economics to the initiation of the first intercontinental ballistic missile
program in the United States. We have lost in him the greatest driving force
in the development of those incredible electronic computing machines which have
the job of duplicating at an extreme speed the functions of logical thought.
We have lost a man who in an unassuming fashion has inquired into the wide-
spread human consequences of the accelerating scientific revolution.

A memorial center named after John von Neumann is proposed, not primarily
to perpetuate his memory but rather to continue some of his work which is badly
needed in the United States. In planning the center it is necessary to stress
the universal applicability of rigorous thinking, the cross connections between
specialized disciplines, the use of computing equipment in novel fields of scien-
tific work and the broad consequences of scientific progress to the life of our
society.

## II. Dual Nature of the Memorial Center

The center is to serve two main purposes, One is scientific, the other is
broadly human.

The scientific purpose of the center is to bring together outstanding and
original thinkers. It is hoped to select people of varying disciplines and
varying ages. Apart from a small permanent staff we expect participants to
stay with the center for an average period of three years---long enough to

pursue a new thought to its logical conclusions, but short enough to guarantee
a lively and continuing interaction with all layers of the scientific community.

The more broad human aspect of the center would be served by arranging
discussions on topics connected with the problems of our rapidly-changing
(technological) environments. Political and military leaders and outstanding
scholars in the humanities will be invited for a day, week, month or year to
lecture or pursue their studies. We hope that contacts of these people with
each other and with scientists working at the center will produce a better understanding of the question: Which way is our rapidly-changing world headed?

### III. The Role of a
Computing Machine at the Center

John von Neumann's last and probably greatest accomplishment was his decisive contribution to the development of computing machines and automation.

The practical value of these machines has been proved in an impressive
fashion. The use of the computing equipment in science has been significant
but not as great as could have been expected. This is due partly to the fact
that few pure research institutions can afford the expensive equipment and partly
to the fact that in the present research institutions the computing machines have
been used more as a routine tool and less as a means to exploit radically new
approaches by which a variety of logical processes can contribute to scientific
problems.

It was the conviction of John von Neumann, which many of us share, that the
eventual use of computing equipment will surpass by far the present practical and
routine applications. Therefore it is proposed that the most modern and powerful
computing machine, the STRETCH, be made available for fulltime and unrestricted
use at the memorial center. It is expected that many of the participants who

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will spend a few years at the center will make work on the machine an important portion of their scientific study during their stay. This would serve, in fact, as one of the inducements for outstanding people to spend a lengthy period at the center.

Computing machines are exceedingly versatile. They have been applied to problems in engineering, mathematics, astronomy, the structure of matter, translation, economics, the game of chess, and many other topics. The availability of the machine could serve therefore as an attraction to people of the most varied interests. It is the intention to provide an opportunity for developing new methods in the use of computing equipment wherever the accomplishments of a prospective visitor and the approach which he proposes to use give rise to the expectation of novel significant results. It is hoped to exclude repetitious applications of established methods, no matter how great their importance might be. Such applications are enjoying at present throughout the Nation fully deserved support.

While it is to be expected that the results obtained by the interaction of keen minds with the most powerful computer will have far-reaching significance, it is quite possible that these results will be matched or even overshadowed by the intellectual achievements of other members of the center who do not use the STRETCH.

#### IV. The Impact of the Scientific Revolution

The rapid sequence of scientific discoveries has changed the lives of the people and has influenced the power balance in the world at a rate so fast that most people had no time to adjust themselves to these important and even fateful developments. This not only holds for the man in the street but it also is true for the highly responsible and overworked few who guide the fate of the nations.

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It has been asserted that in this situation a scientific approach to
political problems has become necessary. Some people in fact contend that
scientists must assume a leading role in politics.

We do not share this view. We believe that the effects of the scientific
revolution involve questions that no scientist, no specialist is prepared to
handle in a successful manner. We further believe that the problems which we
face cannot be solved by purely intellectual methods. No logical argument can
lead to a decision in balancing the idea of freedom against the force of the
regimented state.

At the same time we do believe that logical thinking and scientific facts
can make a modest but exceedingly important contribution to the solution of
problems which affect the lives of everybody. Questions such as nuclear warfare
or international cooperation cannot be considered merely on the basis of a
traditional or intuitive approach.

Therefore it is proposed that outstanding people from a variety of non-
scientific fields be invited to visit the center. A visit may last a day, a week,
a month, or a year. It may result in no more than a lecture, but it may embrace
study, discussion, and, in fact, the formulation of a new plan. It is hoped that
among our visitors there will be men representing politics, literature, the armed
forces, and religion. It is also hoped that some of our visitors will come from
abroad.

It is intended to select our visitors in such a way as to obtain representa-
tion of every point of view. We firmly believe that the ideas of freedom cannot
be successfully developed and defended unless the discussion is all-embracing.
Even the voice which attacks freedom must be given a full hearing.

The scientific members of the center would participate in these discussions by providing information and by presenting a variety of approaches which while not always practical are likely to be new and stimulating. As a general rule the scientists will spend longer periods at the center. They could therefore be helpful by providing a thread of continuity. In other words, the scientific members of the center can serve as an active and participating audience.

The result of all these activities may be a private or a public discussion on a topic of national interest. An extended visit may result in an important publication, in a book, or merely in a new set of ideas in the mind of the visitor. The last alternative seems inconspicuous but might be the most important, particularly if that visitor should have at some time an important influence in the decision-making processes of our Nation.

## V. Location of the Center

While serving on the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, John von Neumann accepted an invitation of a professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles and planned to continue his work there. Since the memorial center intends to pursue his objectives, it is appropriately planned to locate it at UCLA.

The plan is to keep the administration of the center separate from the administration of the University of California. The University of California at Los Angeles would serve, however, as a host to the center by providing experimental facilities and making available the University library. The members of the center would also be invited to lecture at UCLA and other campuses of the University of California. This link with the academic life of the University would be strengthened by the appointment of a few senior members as professors-at-large at the University.

It will be necessary, of course, to provide an appropriate close liaison
between the administration of the center and that of the University of California.

It is hoped that in this manner the center can be made useful not only to the scientific community at large, but also to the local California community and student body. At the same time the facilities at UCLA will make it possible to operate the center in a most economical fashion. It therefore will be possible to concentrate our means toward the purposes which are unique and most urgently needed: A development and integration of scientific and political thought based on a progressive and imaginative community of scientists who have at their disposal the most novel and significant aids that our technology can provide.

March 21, 1960

Dear Edward:

I have neglected to ask you just where I should come on Monday morning, April 4th. I will probably get to San Francisco during the weekend before, and will be staying with my wife at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. How would you suggest that I get out to Livermore?

I would be grateful if you could let me know about this soon, as I will be leaving Cambridge at the end of the month and need to arrange my schedule.

With kind regards.

Henry A. Klaasen

With kind regards.

arrange my schedule.
Cambridge at the end of the month and need to
we know about this soon, as I will be leaving
I would be grateful if you could let

would you suggest that I get out to Livermore?
with my wife at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. How
during the weekend before, and will be staying
4th. I will properly get to San Francisco
where I should come on Monday morning, April
I have neglected to ask you just

Dear Edward:

Livermore, California
P.O. Box 808
University of California
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Dr. Edward Teller

March 31, 1960

ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL

Memo to President Clark Kerr

DRAFT

Edward Teller

March 14, 1960

modified on

March 24, 1960

# A PROPOSAL FOR A COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
IN THE LIVERMORE VALLEY

## I. PURPOSE AND NEED FOR A COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

The essence of the present proposal is to establish a College of Science as a part of the Berkeley Campus at Livermore, near the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.* The Livermore Laboratory has excellent and in some respects unique equipment for advanced research in several fields of science and engineering, as will be described below. It has a staff composed largely of young and highly competent individuals, most of whom will continue to devote all their time to the important programmatic tasks involved in the University's program there, and to the research involved in the selection and completion of these tasks. For several years past however, part of the time of certain staff members has been made available for teaching courses in scientific and technical subjects at upper division and graduate level. This educational program can be expanded and could serve as a basis for an early inauguration of a College of Science without undue expense. We should thereafter have opportunities for recruitment and expansion to provide a permanent staff of high quality. It may be anticipated that outstanding members of the Livermore Laboratory staff, as well as distinguished visitors to the Laboratory, will frequently be called upon to participate in the instruction of our advanced students. However, the main burden will be carried by a full-time staff.

*Hereafter the College of Science will be referred to as "the College", and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore as "the Livermore Laboratory".

While the physical, intellectual and spiritual capital now avail-
able at Livermore will insure cooperation and accomplishment of highest
quality in graduate training and research, it also seems fitting that
the new College of Science should assume its full responsibility in the
education of undergraduate students. A program of undergraduate instruc-
tion is particularly challenging in the fields of the physical sciences,
for there is evidence that the youngest minds are most capable of
absorbing and utilizing the abstract elements of mathematics, physics
and related disciplines. The presence of a graduate school which can
use the advanced research facilities of Livermore Laboratory will serve
to attract staff members who can function effectively on both graduate
and undergraduate levels. And as is the case at Berkeley, we can
anticipate securing government contracts which will materially alleviate
some of our fiscal problems.

Two alternative difficulties may arise when we attempt to establish
a new institution of learning: great initial expenses are encountered if
we attempt to start with all of the desired facilities, or there must be
delays in setting up a functioning unit as it has been designed. At
Livermore these difficulties may be partly avoided, for we already have
the staff members and classrooms used in our education program at the
Laboratory, and a large amount of expensive technical equipment is ready
for immediate use. During the past seven years the work of the Livermore
Laboratory has been in fields that require the broadest and most imaginative
application of recent advances in science. Equipment has been assembled at
a cost of approximately twenty million dollars. Among the facilities avail-

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able for advanced instruction and research may be noted:

(1) The computing establishment which within the next few months will become by far more powerful than any available or in prospect at any other university;

(2) Equipment for plasma research, a broad and fruitful new field in electronic engineering which may have the deepest effect upon the power production of the future;

(3) Extensive facilities in the field of reactor engineering, which include a conventional pool-type reactor and also some unconventional research equipment; and

(4) Equipment adaptable for research into the properties of material under extremely high pressures and temperatures, and under the influence of radiation.

The cost of educating graduate students in science is much higher than for undergraduates, especially in such fields as the physical sciences and engineering which require complex and expensive equipment. Since this equipment is already available for use by graduate students of the College, it is apparent that we can carry on a graduate program of instruction and research at a much lower cost at Livermore than elsewhere.

The University of California is now facing the prospect of a great increase in the number of qualified students who may wish to enroll on the Berkeley Campus; the total here may reach forty-seven thousand unless steps are taken to accommodate them elsewhere. Present enrollment in engineering and the physical sciences at higher levels is such that our facilities of staff and plant are already overtaxed. A College of Science

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located not far from Berkeley may become a part of the University's
plans for an orderly expansion of its facilities and should aid in the
solution of serious problems which already threaten its continued
expansion in several critical disciplines. A major reason for estab-
lishing such a college in the Livermore Valley is the presence of the
Livermore Laboratory with all its facilities. Additional reasons are:
proximity to other advanced and refined technical enterprises in the
neighborhood (the Sandia Laboratory at Livermore, the General Electric
reactor near Pleasanton, and others at somewhat greater distances);
and the expansion of the Bay Area population in the general direction
of Livermore.

In our educational system there exists a gap between pure science
and engineering. We are critically short of able scientists who have
broad technical training, a shortcoming which may materially weaken our
development within the next decade. There is no doubt that great con-
tributions to this national problem will come from the Berkeley Campus
as now organized. But the flexibility of a new college designed to
integrate science and its applications will give rise to added intellectual
wealth, and will enable the University to better fulfill its obligations
to the State and to the Nation.

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plan either at undergraduate or graduate level. Many of the courses
which will be offered have not as yet been organized in the form in
which we expect to present them. We are therefore including here
merely a list of subjects with their estimated weighting in units. In
the next section will be presented the more formal curricula which it
is proposed to offer at the outset, made up of courses now being offered
at Berkeley.

The Undergraduate Curriculum

For the sake of completeness the subjects for the first two years
of undergraduate work are included, for it is hoped that by the time the
long range program is operating we shall be in a position to offer the
full four-year curriculum for the Bachelors Degree. As elsewhere stated,
it is proposed at the beginning to accept only students who have completed
their lower division requirements. The principal value of listing here
the subjects which now seem appropriate for lower division students is
that it may serve as a guide to future planning. In the list which follows,
the first column shows the number of units in each subject to be required
of all students; the second column shows the total number of units to be
offered in the subjects listed, the additional units providing areas of
expansion for students who may already be developing major fields of
specialization. Thus for a student who may be interested in plasma physics
and engineering, extra courses may be taken in electricity and magnetism.
Additional courses in computers will fill the need of a student who may
be planning to work in advanced computer technology. For a student
concerned with geophysics, three additional units in geology and geo-
physics will be appropriate.

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It will be noted that no courses in engineering are included in the
undergraduate curriculum, although the background of certain science
courses will be slanted toward applications. A really imaginative
approach to engineering requires so much scientific background that
specific courses in engineering may best be undertaken at graduate level.

This curriculum will be developed in such a manner that its content
and sequence will facilitate transferral of a student to other colleges
of the University, or will permit those in Berkeley and elsewhere to
enroll at Livermore. However it must be recognized that some additional
time may be required in such changes, which will be made with the approval
of the dean or other responsible officer of the college or department to
which admission is sought.

## Graduate Curriculum

To an extent even greater than with undergraduate planning, the
graduate curriculum can not be presented in final form before it has
been tried. It must evolve over a period of years, during which
experience gained can be added to our original ideals, and to the guidance
which will come from the Graduate Council and from the departments whose
disciplines are principally involved. During this period of development
there will also be frequent consultation with appropriate committees of
the Academic Senate.

Our short term plan will be presented below in somewhat greater de-
tail. For the more distant view it seems desirable to do no more than
list the topics which seem especially suited to the close association
which will develop between graduate study at the College of Science
and the facilities both of staff and equipment at the Livermore Laboratory:

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Nuclear chemistry

Solid state physics and chemistry

Advanced computer technology

Space technology and telemetering techniques

Advanced hydrodynamics - shocks, turbulence, computational methods

Geophysics - including meteorology, upper atmosphere studies, seismology

Plasma Physics and engineering

Advanced physical chemistry - including materials at high temperatures, metallurgy and ceramics

Nuclear explosives engineering

Reactor technology

Nuclear physics

To clarify some of the terms here listed, we should have in mind that electronuclear research and engineering refers particularly to work on controlled fusion. Research in this field is closely connected with the study of electric discharges and highly ionized gases. Applications may arise in fields quite different from that of power production. Electronuclear research and engineering will also include the engineering of accelerators and other research facilities.

Computer research and engineering will at first concentrate on the use of computers. In the course of time the development of computers may also be included.

In the field of telemetering techniques a great deal of experience is available at the Livermore Laboratory on the important type of electronics

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Plant

On the basis of current estimates of $8000.00 per student, a total
capital investment of sixteen million dollars will be required for the
College by the time it reaches its maximum enrollment of two thousand
students. Although there will be a substantial saving in the cost of
setting up laboratory facilities, as indicated above, we may anticipate
a somewhat higher cost for student housing than obtains at Berkeley.

We now have at the Livermore Laboratory a library adequate in the
fields of engineering and the physical sciences. Immediate steps will
be taken to add necessary books and periodicals for students in the
humanities and social sciences. A well-equipped auditorium with a
capacity of four hundred will be available for meetings, lectures and
concerts.

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IV. THE SHORT RANGE PLAN

During the several years which will be required to bring together
a faculty of desired size and quality, and to construct the necessary
buildings, certain facilities already in use for educational purposes
at Livermore will be used, and it may be anticipated that some dependence
will also be placed upon the Berkeley Campus. Our plan for this period
of transition can be organized under the same headings as for the
permanent College as described above.

Students

For several years past courses in chemistry, engineering, mathematics
and physics have been offered to our employees at upper division level
under the auspices of the Extension Division. An average of nearly fifty
employee-students have been enrolled in these courses each semester.
Since most or all of them have already earned a Bachelors Degree, our
first effort will be directed toward preparing them for graduate enrollment
by giving them the essential courses of our curriculum which have not been
included in their previous college training.

As stated above, no immediate plans are being made to enroll under-
graduate students below the upper division level.

Eight courses have been offered to our employees at Livermore during
the present academic year at graduate level. Credit for these courses
in engineering, mathematics and physics is being applied toward require-
ments for the Masters Degree, under the supervision of the Graduate
Division and of the department concerned on the Berkeley Campus. The
forty-four employee-students enrolled in these courses will be encouraged
to continue their training, on a part-time or full-time basis, adding courses
which are now a part of our undergraduate and graduate curricula as above

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outlined, and which will be essential to their satisfactory completion of the requirements for higher degrees. We shall expect to attract increasing numbers of properly qualified graduate students who may be interested in the sort of training we shall offer.

In offering the curricula which follow, we wish to make clear that they are not in final form. Our listing of courses from the curricula on the Berkeley campus provides the best basis now at hand for indicating the nature of the immediate training program we envision--- a program whose purpose will be to integrate the basic sciences with engineering. Since we shall be starting with a small student body, we shall be in a favorable position to experiment and to make appropriate changes in content and emphasis. Both at the outset and as we proceed, the advice of committees of the Academic Senate will be sought. We shall also need to draw upon the experience of administrative officials of the University who are familiar with the problems which will arise.

The following curriculum is limited to the upper division level and is made up of courses presently being offered at Berkeley whose subject matter most nearly meets our needs:

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Junior Year</th><th>Units</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Mathematics 128A-128B</td><td>Numerical analysis</td><td>3 3</td></tr><tr><td>Physics 105A-105B</td><td>Analytical mechanics</td><td>3 3</td></tr><tr><td>Physics 110D</td><td>Modern physics<br/>laboratory</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Physics 115</td><td>Introduction to<br/>quantum mechanics</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Physics 121</td><td>Introduction to<br/>atomic structure</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Chemistry 109*</td><td>Physical chemistry</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Elective - List A</td><td></td><td>3 3</td></tr><tr><td>Elective - List B</td><td></td><td>2-4 2-4<br/>16-18 16-18</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

* The content of this course will be somewhat altered to provide greater emphasis on physical sciences

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## Faculty

Nine of our Livermore employees are now on appointment by the University to teach courses in engineering, mathematics and physics in the Graduate program at Livermore, on a part-time basis. Three of them have previously taught as members of the staff at Berkeley, and four others have taught at other institutions of higher learning. These and others will continue as lecturers, and some of them may later be invited to continue on a more permanent basis after due consideration by appropriate committees of the Academic Senate. It is anticipated that a few members of the Berkeley staff may be available at the outset on a part-time basis, in the humanities and social sciences as well as in the basic subjects. Permanent members of the staff will be added from other institutions as rapidly as possible. We hope to be in a position to offer some of the courses listed in our undergraduate and graduate curricula by September 1962. Plans are under consideration to establish off-campus television connections from certain Berkeley classrooms, and these may extend our use of the Berkeley staff on a temporary, and perhaps in some cases, a permanent, basis. It seems possible that later some Livermore courses may enjoy a television audience on the campus at Berkeley.

## Plant

Immediate utilization will be made of the classrooms now in use for the Academic Program of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, and of laboratory and demonstration facilities which are well-suited to upper division and graduate instruction.

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other students will be organized, and will be supervised by the Department
of Military Science and Tactics at Berkeley.

All matters relating to credit for high school and university work,
for grades of scholarship, for minimum scholarship requirements, for
credit by examination, for final examinations, and for removal of
deficiencies, will be handled according to the provisions of the University.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

April 8, 1960

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Harvard University
Center for International Affairs
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

I cannot begin to tell you how much everyone in the Laboratory appreciated your talk last Monday. It was magnificent and it was precisely what is needed. We have a tape recording of it and there was mentioned the idea that the tape be used to encourage people who are similarly worried as we are in Livermore. What do you think of this possibility?

We have not discussed the question of an honorarium. Unfortunately we are not in a position to offer you anything that is at all commensurate with the occasion. I am enclosing a check for $75.00, which is all that the rules permit us to do.

I do not know whether or not this trip was financed from other sources. If it was not completely financed, we would be able to make some contribution toward your travel expenses. Please let us know and we will be glad to do whatever we can.

By the time this letter reaches you I probably will have seen you in Palm Springs. However, I want this letter to go out independently so that this formal portion of our communications should not be delayed.

With many thanks for your visit and with best regards, I am

ET:gg

Enc.

May 4, 1960

Dear Edward:

Many thanks for your letter of
April 25th. Since I made several stops
on the way out to the West Coast and did
not return directly to Boston, I feel that
you should be responsible only for the round
trip fare Boston-San Francisco, which was
$385.00. It will therefore be impossible
for me to fill out the voucher, in addition
to which I have lost the ticket stub. I
hope, however, that this won't make for
too much trouble, and I want you to know
how much I appreciate it.

It was very good to see you on
the 28th.

Kind regards.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

May 25, 1960

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Please find enclosed the piece I submitted as comments to the
last Rockefeller Panel report. Lewis Galantiere has submitted it
(with some slight changes) to the New York Times for publication.
I do not know whether they will accept it. Actually I would be
quite happy if something like this could be printed.

I have thought a little more about our conversation. You said
that if Nelson were president, he would do the right thing about the
present situation. I agree. But what is the right thing?

What would you say about this possibility: take the present
occasion to propose legislation for sharing our nuclear weapons with
our NATO allies?

What do you think about this second possibility: to join the
European common market and bring about a fusion of the inner six,
the outer seven, the United States, and possibly some other nations
into a free economic community?

It would seem to me that one or the other, or possibly both,
of these actions would be timely and helpful in recapturing the
initiative and essentially the right thing to do for long-range
reasons.

As always, it was wonderful to see you this last weekend.

ET:gg

June 1, 1960

Personal

Dear Edward:

Thank you for your nice letter of May 25th. You
have probably noticed that something good came out of our
last conversation. With your encouragement, I decided to
take the bull by the horns and you will see over the next
few weeks some results as indeed you have already, I believe.

About your specific suggestions, I like very much
the point about an economic community between the United States
and Europe. I would approach the nuclear sharing problem
somewhat differently, on the basis of a NATO stockpile. I am
trying to do something on the secrecy point. Is it possible
to produce some evidence which shows where secrecy is hurting
us and where we actually refused to reveal things as a means
of covering up specific policy mistakes or as a means to keep
us from reassessing certain policies? If you could send me
something on this, I would be grateful.

Ted Walcowicz has undoubtedly told you about our
conversation with respect to the Institute. I will do what
I can.

Warm regards.

November 30, 1960

Dear Edward:

In a few weeks you will be receiving the draft of a
book on arms control written by Arthur Hadley. He was paid by
the 20th Century Fund to set in on the summer study group of
M.I.T. and to write a popular book based on his conclusions.

I have not seen the manuscript but I wanted you to know
that Arthur Hadley is not a Hans Bethe. Knowing him I am sure
he has done a serious and honest job which could be a useful
counterweight to the extremists on both sides. He is very eager
to get you comments, and I would appreciate anything you can do
for him.

It has been much too long since we have had a chance
to talk.

Warm regards.