I mean hydrogen bombs that have very little radio-active fallout. Uh divelofmint Of Omatl, eltan Ho Lema drthis— sworiddur purposefis to defend our country against the possibility of long- range hydrogen bomb missiles directed against our cities. There seems tpt l om tune cet to be no possibility to stop the arrival of emma missile, except by the of fn bry bbe) (ty eaten! t¢ employment of defensive missileg bearing small hydrogen bomb4A . TA 3 My 4. evel L o. a ry Jo question is simply this: Without knowing -- I repeat, without knowing 2 that the Communists will, with us, stop the development of H-bombs, are we to allow our security to be based wholly on wishful thinking, not on Oo our own best efforts. R ; S { 7 ee 3 “be ‘a wht ; . “I > ‘ ldap -. i - or Another fact to be pointed out is that, without inspection, first Sa a ~ ga S 5 ft Gy he development work on the H-bomb could not be detected until bombs were actually * , : rp Ns , ro wa i oA ‘meparatory work. Consequently if we, acting in good faith, stop all this work, Pay of weedd necessarilybe proceeded by many months of . ay anara ac abaney it, auch Yet suchtests / would be, through our own neglect, woefully unprepared. The final fact is that the mass of our peop best scientific conclusion ; ™ AL a 2 ~A could, without warning, suddenly be confronted with a type of attack for which PaaS Lh ~i as not added materially to the radio-active content of the atmosphere and that the “wed “y pany Dt nolds that testing on the scale so far carried out by the Soviets and this nation ; : SN MX + yy oF ae r Myy. REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHT, D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY testéd.