the US side of the talks.
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Meeting #1389, 10 July 58:
Starbird brought up a proposal to consider cancelling the UN demostration
program for the Pinon event of Hardtack,
He noted that several events
had taken place since the recommendation
for the program on 18 March,
which required a reappraisal of the program.
The pros and cons of
cancelling the test at this late date and the fact that
approximately
3 to 4 million dollars of the 10 million dollar sost for the shot could be
recovered were brought up and the commission agreed that Libby should
recommend to the President the caneellation of this program,
Further discussion of the position to be taken on international cooperation
in nuclear testing, as discussed in AEC 226/147, led to a position which
would be given to the Secretary of State for transmission to and use by the
Fisk group at Geneva,
"Starbird reviewed at length the background of the
proposal, pointing out that the Geneva technical conference may afford
the US an excellent opportunity to obtain a propaganda victory over the
USSR.
He added that in presenting the proposal
under consideration,
the Fisk group would confine its comments to international observation
of nuclear tests and not concern itself with international conduct or
monitoring of nuclear tests,
In addition, he pointed out that nothing
would be said about high altitude shots.
He also commented that the
proposed position had the concurrence of General Loper, ''
Note that in the meetings abaut this time, the question of cooperating
with the French in eschange of information, and inparticular weapons
information, begins to come up more and more feequently.
In this