May 15, 1957
MEMORANDUM OF CONFERENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT
May 15, 1957
Others present:
Admiral Strauss
General Goodpaster
The purpose of the meeting was to obtain the President's consideration of the fissionable material and weapons program of the AEC
for fiscal year 1958. Admiral Strauss gave the President a letter
setting out a proposed program and, after discussion, the President
signed an endorsement approving the program.
The discussion
included questions by the President as to amounts of material shown
for peaceful uses, the nature of military uses of material for other
than weapons purposes, and the justification of amounts recommended
for these uses, and questions by the President as to whether we may
not have reached the stage of "overrefining" in remodeling and reworking old types of weapons which are then retired from the stockpile.
On this last point, Admiral Strauss will have a review made,
and will report further to the President.
The President kept for his own files the original of Admiral Strauss'
memorandum, anda carbon copy of the endorsement he signed. He
read through the "'key'' giving the numbers and amounts which were
left blank in the memorandum, and returned the key to Admiral
Strauss.
There was then discussion on a few incidental matters,
including an
atomic expert for the U. S. Embassy in Bonn, the progress of the
treaty for the International Atomic Energy Agency, the importance
of which the President stressed, and some recent indications of a
strained relationship between the Atomic Energy Commission and
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Admiral Strauss said he
would give attention at once to this latter pryblem.
EJ
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A. J. Goodpaster
Brigadier General, USA™
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