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strengths, evaluations in critical areas of science and technology which could have a direct influence on R&D progress in the US and USSR, and evaluations of nuclear energy and space activities. Production relating to nuclear energy and space was to be done within OSI and all other areas were to be done under external contract or, as in the case of guided missiles left to the Department of Defense. These guidelines have generally been followed up to the present with the exception that non-Soviet guided missile development is closely followed elsewhere in the Agency.
Current OSI production on Free World areas is almost entirely in the field of nuclear energy, [redacted] with some publications on BW/CW developments in the mid-East.
In the beginning, the division of effort into various substantive fields was influenced heavily by the generally poor state of scientific intelligence within the intelligence community, as indicated by the various governmental committees which investigated the situation. Undoubtedly another strong factor was the Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb in the late summer
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