REPROOUCEOAT THE NATIONAL t RCHIVES •e- DECi ASSIFIED Authorityl 1' f q Cf By NARA Date ' Cf REPRODUCED ATTHE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIE D Authonty l By l ql 'f NARA Date J Cf ff i f I • J' Subject Work BoiQg i •$ ' on th4 l'orminive Link f ·• • t 7 11962 % _ Ir In my vidt to AEC io ntAll ationJJ laot waek I look ad into the st atus of the ' o'l k in c1avclopirl8 devicaJJ · the ''pamiosivo liukn to prevaot t h unauthorized uno of atomic 1tl4 0UD• Thora aro two ct nters o ncti ity o z ot Sandia Corpor atiou the other at the Livor or uboratory ' s ndi Corporation i e preaently -cqaceutratin mi c li mitod but relatively si plo solution directed prf J arily at protecting Jupiter ianilco deployed in Europa frOQ unauthori cd use 'the Sandia people ra 1ve dcvdopcd a ounplo c in itioo lock davico which will be ready for ioct-llation in Ju itcrs next fall end could bo uNd in other•• but ooc u -- existing weapons sy toma While it ap eara 11 feasible vay to s rd 11gainst delibarate misu- o it doea not undertake to pro• tact againut tuiperlng or G llbotage •• 1 merely iJnposaa a two to four hour dGlay on a0 intruder t LP41 lo of c11GAHa Dbling th• warhud • i 'Ibo Livermora Litboratcny 1cientiot111 'b cve been working on o much coro aophistic itcd loug•r sngo aolutiou which will protect 41gainat both miauso ind tmi pedng It tak ea into account 'CJ ny conti'd3enci•• ••· an olly seizf na a wupoa the action of A poychoUc attea tptins to fi-r• ono • a sabotour beut on firing the weapon or ncdoriDB it inort • th• theft of o ccr tipleto wc ipon Obdoualy wbco all thosa factota are cranked in the iu lution uot be COl lplox 'l'bi• complexity 1a iact NM4 by the noed for a spccic l co mu i ic ztioca uot to asaure that tho coda geta to tho we3poz l in timo The Livermore 91atcm vill take aovor11l years to pcrrfcct after which it csn be built into woapou but ia f 1 g ot ad4ptabla to retrofit ol41i apou I 1 1antionod in anothor ma or anduz a tha ap1 4rcnt aeod of more pr•• cice u1daucc in the eapona field for tho ilC install 4tioua Ihia oocd oxiato 4lso wiC h rcg ird to the development of this permiu1v• i link The work thuu far io boiag dot a at tho 111itiati'170 of the ocicntiote 4t S41ldia and Livormo o who hav1 aot th41r obJ-ctivee ' a REPROOVCE0 AT THE NATIONAl ARCHIVES ·- DECLASSIFIED ·-- Authonty 1 f By G __ L Cf NA RA Date ' · - ft f' tkLI · nnd critcrb To -ork vi t h CZ1ximum effoctivene•• tboy cood to knOII auch thingo aa the perfori ianco to1ir of thoir porm1 oa1ve dovico• the timo avn1labla to produce tham• the ve3pous oyatema to be protected and the poinc iu tho chain of ccmun d where thca permiasivo codo i• to bG held ia cuotody 4 H4NJ 1 D TJ YL01 • NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu Read related article The U S Nuclear Presence in Western Europe 1954-1962 Part II 2020-09-17