~13‘ work on | items on which some progress can be accomplished without tests." Further on Vela and readiness, "The exigencies of the seismic improvement program have essentially eliminated the readiness capability for resumption on short notice of full-scale underground testing. We would hope to receive authorization and funds to restore this capability in the near future. If such testing is resumed, we would be in a position to test (and stockpile is successful) a variety of itens | ." 1 mentioned above and| aebe) (These include the developments After a discussion of the methods that have been used to cer Cocaanetan different from those stockpiled in the past, forstorkpate;it is summarized that "The conclusions about weapon development which we have reached on the basis of the past few years‘ i work and our anticipation of the next few year's work, one can say that the test moratorium has considerably impeded development both in thermonuclear and fission weapons design, that progress which is quite important militarily can still be made without full-scale nuclear testing, and that great care must be exercised in examining new designs before they are stockpiled in order to insure that they will function properly. The laborapory has kept approximately a constant number of personnel on weaponization and device design, which together constitute the weapons program. We expect that this number will not decrease during the next 2 1/2 years, in view of the weapons program which we foresee even without resumption of testing." In noting the detrimental effect of the moratorium on the Plowshare program since nuclear explosions are not permitted due to political considerations, some contributions to the Plowshare program which have come from Vela experiments (Cowboy