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withdrawing.
accomplished if there were a graceful way of
On
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re-examination, however, no graceful way out could be establishe
AEC 952/25 was prepared,
ment of withdrawal,
therefore, recommending public announce-
The Commission has not acted on AEC 952/25.
7, On February 12, 1958, the Chairman again asked the
Director of Military Application to reinvestigate the feasibility
of the test in the light of discussions that Captain Morse had
had with Dr. Millis.
Dr, Mills was queried again and asked to
provide the answers to five questions, which he did by the
. teletype attached as the Appendix.
The brief, he stated he
believed it was still possibie to conduct the test using the
method deseribed in paragraph 4, above,
8, On the evening of February 14, Drs, Lawrence, Teller
and Mills telephoned General Starbird saying that they still
believed the observation program should be arranged.
Dr. Teller
suggested that the observers be given samples to take home for
their own analyses,
General Starbird indicated that he did not
believe this a satisfactory solution because it would permit
them to determine information we did not desire to reveal,
and
would give the Soviets the ability to say that their analysis
nad indicated the samples to be dirty.
Dr. Teller asked if there
Was any objection to his contacting Dr. Libby directly, and
General Starbird indicated that, of course, there was none,
General Starbird asked whether Berkeley could arrange
(if the
observers were sent back by air with the samples) to accomplish
the analyses of sampies under observation,
Street indicated that this cculd be done,
Drs. Lawrence and
Such a solution would
obviate the necessity for setting up a laboratory in the test
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or the giving to the observers of samples,
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area,