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MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
Discussion at the 455th Meeting
of the National Security Council,
Friday, August 12, 1960
Present at the 455th NSC Meeting were the President of the
United States, presiding; the Vice President of the United
States; the Secretary of State;
the Secretary of Defense; and
the Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. Also
present at the Meeting and participating in the Council Actions
below were the Secretary of the Treasury; the Director, Bureau
of the Budget; and the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission(Item 1).
Also attending the Meeting were the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff; the Director of Central Intelligence; the Director, U.S.
Information Agency; the U.S. Ambassador to NATO (Burgess); the
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Agency*, the Deputy
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Agency*: the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Merchant); The Assis-
tant to the President; Special Assistants to the President for
National Security Affairs and for Security Operations Coordination;
Dr. Leonard Jaffe, Chief Communications Satellite Program, NASA*;
Mr. Haydn Williams, Department of Defense; Mr. Robert Fackard,
Department of State; Mr. Huntington Sheldon, CIA (Item 4); Mr
Spurgeon Keeney, Office of the Special Assistant to the President
for Science and Technology (Item 1); the White House Staff Secre-
tary; the Assistant White House Staff Secretary; the Acting Executive Secretary, NSC (Boggs); and Mr. Charles Haskins, NSC Special
Staff.
There follows a summary of the discussion at the Meeting
and the main points taken.
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GENEVA NEGOTIATIONS ON NUCLEAR TESTING
(NSC Action 2238-b-(5)
Mr. Gray began by explaining that the first {tem on the
Council agenda had to do with the nuclear testing negotiations
at Geneva and called upon the Secretary of State to present the
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posal of last March which provided for a moratorium on underground
tests, subject to two conditions:
(1) that a coordinated research
program to perfect seismic instrumentation be agreed upon and (2)
that satisfactory agreement be arrived at on the banning of nuclear
tests in the atmosphere.
The scientists at Geneve had reached agree-
ment in principle in May, and then the Soviets had rejectedthe_
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