Military Policy Committee

The proposal cleared the Military Policy Committee on Jime 12,1944. On June 18 Groves contracted with the engineering firm of H. K. Ferguson to build a 2,100-column thermal-diffusion plant beside the power plant on the Clinch River in ninety days or less. That extraordinary deadline allowed no time for design. Ferguson would assemble the operation from twenty-one identical copies— Chinese copies, Groves called them—of Philip Abelson s 100-column imit in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. 

The Military Policy Committee met on November 12,1942, and its dedsions were ratified by the S-1 Executive Committee two days later. The Nfilitary Policy Coiiunittee, acting on Groves s and Conant s recommendations, cancelled the centrifuge project. Gaseous diffusion, the pile, and the electromagnetic method were to proceed directly to full-scale. 

Secretary of War Henry Stimson creates a Military Policy Committee to help make decisions for the Manhattan Project. 

The Lewis committee compromises on the electromagnetic method. The Military Policy Committee decides to build the plutonium production facilities at a site other than Oak Ridge. 

In accordance with the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, all atomic energy activities are transferred from the Manhattan Engineer District to the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission. The Top Policy Group and the Military Policy Committee had already disbanded. 

The Interim Committee was to meet in full dress with its Scientific Panel on Thursday, May 31, and on Friday, June 1, with its industrial advisers. The Joint Chiefs of Staff prepared the ground for those meetings on May 25 when they issued a formal directive to the Pacific commanders and to Hap Arnold defining U.S. military policy toward Japan in the months to come ... 

War policy report , 6 Sep. 1915, CAB 27/2, and Report of Cabinet Committee on the Co-ordination of Military and Financial Effort , 4 Feb. 1916, CAB 27/4, TNA. For McKenna s failure to persuade his Cabinet colleagues to relate strategy to what the national finances would sustain in a long war, see Martin Farr, A compelling case for voluntarism Britain s alternative strategy, 1915-1916 , War in History, 9 (2002), 279-306. 

Report of the Cabinet Committee on War Policy , 10 Aug. 1917, CAB 27/6, TNA. David Stevenson, 1914—1918 The History of the First World War (London Allen Lane, 2004), p. 468 Wilhelm Deist, The military collapse of the German Empire the reality behind the stab-in-the-back myth . War in History 3 (1996), 186—207. 

Conant was able to devote his full effort to Harvard for only a few years as the Nazi military threat came to dominate the world, Conant became increasingly involved with national affairs. As Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he provided effective scientific leadership during World War II. After the war he was appointed the first Chairman of the National Science Board, and in that role helped to initiate the policies that proved so successful in encouraging the development of science, especially in the U.S., but also abroad. 

In 1977, approvals were placed with the SAE as the Lubricants Review Committee of the Lubricants Review Institute (LRI), and this worked well for a decade. Engine lubricant test policy changes and strengthened API classifications, described below, gave lubricant companies and also end users more confidence, reducing the need for US military approvals. The influence of the LRI diminished, and the US military questioned the approval process cost-effectiveness and whether it should source lubricants at the appropriate API quality as a commercial item description instead. 

As noted above, the Committee of Enquiry into the use of CS in Northern Ireland recommended that chemical agents intended for use in the control of a civil disturbance should be assessed from the viewpoint more of a medicinal drug than that of a military weapon (HMSO, 1969,1971). However, in reaching this conclusion the Committee did make the distinction that with new drugs there is a need for a balanced risk-benefit analysis and these are purely professional medical considerations. However, with a chemical intended for use against humans for peacekeeping purposes, while many of the hazard and risk assessments are of a medical nature, additional other questions may arise which are concerned with social policy and there may also be... 

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