SALISHURYs

Mr. Chairmen, this can be very briefly stated in ite
' main ontlines.

There is quite a bit of particulariza

that could be done if you wanted to plunge into all of] the
possibilities of trouble, not in the field ef revelati
technical material that would aid the opposition, buat

fleld of psychological izpact at home and abroad.

the

At

your basic problem is that there is on unter-current,
ground swell of uneasiness going through the populati

pretty

much outside any rational consideration of shat the h

and the effects of atomic weapons explosions are.

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it comes out of a superstitious fealing and after that,]

there-

fore, because of this idea a type of reasoning that
weapons explosion being followed by tornadoes, being fo

by extraordinary rains have been the cause of these th

Tt has been quite troublesomethis spring just frou the]
volume of handle of lstters from people who are not nal) lous
. at all, who ere quite sincere, but who are quite doguativ
about their belif that stomi¢e weapons explosions are ret
sponsible far weather anomalies and ought te be stopped:
This has wanifested itself in statenants of two Congr
even, and letters have come from Congressional Comsit
the Air Force, the Aray, the Feather Bureau and the ayc
asking for statements on whether or not there is a connoction.

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