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Clearly the JCS is not anxious to move the shots or even to delay them
and rather lengthy discussion ensued at this meeting and , since it is not
classified, I will make a copy of it to attach to these notes.
Also of interest is that there is a ship of people protesting the Pacific
testing, the ''Golden Rule, '' on its way to the Pacific test area to carry
out thier protest; also a law suit has been filed in the District Federal
Court by fourteen scientists and others from the US and three other countries,
seeking an order to halt US nuclear testing.
Meeting #1352, 7 April 58:
Chairman Strauss attended a meeting this same day at the Pentagon
with representatives from the State Department, the DOD, and James
Killian to consider the question of transferring the high altitude shots
to JI.
The DOD indicated that they favored carrying out the shots as
scheduled at Enewetok and Dulles agreed with the AEC that, if the shots
were carried out at Enewetok and any incident occurred involving the
natives,
such
of Hardtack.
an incident would be a serious threat to any continuation
‘After further discussion,
the representatives of the AEC
and Departments of State and Defense had agreed to transfer the high
altitude shots to JI.
He added that the Department of Defense representatives
were, however, reluctant to approve the change and that although he was
relieved that the decision had been made, he was still concerned about the
possibility of personal injury resulting from the shots. '' Further discussion
had to do with recent information that seemed to indicate that the eye burn
hazard was less than earlier predicted and ,
Starbird would be in touch
with Ludeke immediately as to accelerating the efforts to transfer the
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