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I believe we should negotiate safeguarded agreements with
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yields not greater than one hundred kilotons.
Such agreements
would of necessity have to provide for carefully considered
inspection measures which are capable of detecting any violation.
Plans could be made and development programs continued so that
such a violation would be followed by resumption of U. S. testing
above one hundred kilotons within a few months.
Moreover, our
next series of tests of devices above one hundred kilotons is not
scheduled until 1958,
In the meantime I would hope that you will consider taking
independent action to discontinue tests of multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons while at the same time greatly accelerating tests
of very small weapons.
I stated this view at some length in
testimony before the Subcommittee on Disarmament of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on April 12, 1956.
A copy of my
prepared statement was sent to your office at that time.
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I recently again stated my views on tests to the other
members of the Commission in connection with Governor Stassen's
request for a Commission position.
It is my prayerful hope that
these views may be of some assistance in your efforts to find a
solution to the ever-mounting nuclear threat of world destruction.
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