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PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18
executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I
got back from overseas in February of '46, I think. After
getting out of the replacement depot, I got assigned back to
Colonel Duffy and was assigned at Newark. I went on terminal
leave something like July of '46 and went back to Georgia Tech
and finished two quarters. I had two quarters to finish at
Georgia Tech. While I was at Georgia Tech I began working with
a microwave, an anonymous propagation research group that turned
out, oddly enough, was under Colonel Duffy's direction. I didn't
know it. It had nothing to do with my getting deployed there,
but I had a student assistanceship working on that.
I made some report, and my name came back in front of
Colonel Duffy in September, I think, of 1 46, and I got asked to
come up to his office. I think he was still at Bradley Beach,
Sharp River Hills Hotel there near Belmar, New Jersey. When I
was there, who should come in but Spilhaus. They told me they
had a problem involving balloons and asked if I would be
interested in working with them, and they offered me a graduate
assistanceship at NYU, and I wanted to go to graduate school in
physics, so I was delighted to have that opportunity. That was
either September or October of 1 46.
Q: So Spilhaus, since he was on the staff there, he
invited you to come to New York University.
A: Yes, he did.
Q: So you went to New York University when?
A: Right after
had already started.
a copy of (inaudible)
have all of that.
Christmas. January 1, 1947. The program
I presume you have all the details. I have
letter to General Spaatz. I presume you
Q: I believe we do, but I'd still like to review it and
make sure it's the same letter.
A: In any event, there was a big push. I guess after
Operation Crossroads the first nuclear test in the Pacific was in
July of '46, and Crary, because of the long range detection
concept, Crary was sent to Ascension Island which is the antipode
for, as close as they could get to the antipode for Bikini, and
failed to detect any signal from Operation Crossroads, from the
nuclear explosion.
Q: You mentioned detection. What drove the aspect of
detection? Was it because of our test?
A: Yes, our test was being used as a signal source. The
question was in order to detect any Soviet test, could we detect
our own tests. So Crary was essentially sent to Ascension to see
if he could detect the nuclear explosion.