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of the AEC's laboratories he believed the laboratorves Were becoming
too large.
He suggested that the commission consider this matter and
discuss it with the GAC at their next meeting, ''
I recall in a meeting about
4 or 5 months prior to this, Libby (I believe) had noted that he felt that
LASL had already gotten beyond the optimum size for their job whereas
Livermore was just about at that point and
should probably grow no further.
In this current discussion, the General Manager noted that one problem
was that no one person or gruup was responsible for long-range planning
for the laboratories as a whole.
There are some commission discussions that were held on the subject of
weapons test suspensions and policies to be presented publicly and at
Geneva which are classified and will be copied from about the 9-10
August time period,
Meeting 71397, 11 August 58:
The discussion began with the General Manager reporting that a revised
draft position paper on the suspension of
weapons tests was being circulated
among officials of government departments and agencies concerned.
Colonel Stewart (of DMA, I believe) reported on a meeting earlier that
day with the DOD and Department of State to consider a draft
for the US on weapons testing limitations.
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Stewart stated at the meeting that
the AEC had strong reservations about limiting all testing to underground.
McCone said it was important for the Commission to present its views to the
President.
‘Mr. Graham commented that the AEC representative at
US Delegation
Geneva, Captain Morse, had reported that the head of the
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