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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
DEMONSTRATION SHOT FOR HARDTACK
Report to the Acting General Manager by the
Director of Military Application
THE PROBLEM
1. To consider certain aspects of the contemplated U.N.
observer program at HARDTACK which would affect the plan of
observation to be offered the U.N.
BACKGROUND
2. At his press conference of July 3, 1957, the President
stated in part,
"I am going to invite any country in the world
that wants to come and fire its rockets in the air and see just
exactly how much radioactive fallout there is from those bombs..."
Later the initial announcement on the HARDTACK series, dated
September 15, 1957, stated in part,
"A United Nations agency will .
be invited to designate an international group to observe one of
the detonations involving limited fallout and studies are under
“way to determine the instrumentation which will facilitate their
observation without making disclosures which would compromise
restricted weapon information...
Still later at his initial
appearance on September 19, 1957, before the U.N. General
Assembly's current meeting, Mr. Dulles stated, "We shall invite
the United Nations to send observers to one of our next tests
so that they can see how these tests are conducted,"
RESTRICTEDDARA
This document contains restricted data as
defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
Its transmittal or the disclosure of its
contents in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited,
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