Meeting #1690, 28 January 1961:
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Most of this meeting was devoted to the ''Deliberations of Disarmaments
Study Group,'' and the details of this related discussion are contained
in an extract in our files.
Note that both Starbird and McCone left the AEC just a few days prior
to this meeting and Glenn Seaborg was alm ut to come on board as
Chairman.
Briefing on FY62 budget amendments,
7 February 1961:
This briefing for the Commissioners presented the proposed amendments
for the FY62 budget, and, for weapons testing, it was said ''a resumption
of full scale weapons developments tests would require additional funds
in the order of 40 to 60 million dollars for each series of tests.
Laboratory experiments had been budgeted at 6.5 million in FY62 with
18 million dollars designated for Project Vela Tests.
Meeting #1696, 8 February 1961:
Discussion of proposed amendments to the FY62 budget continued with
some of the following extracts:
'Mr. Burrows discussed the 15 million
dollar request for weapons production and stressed the increase was
justified by a recent review of the readiness aspects of the weapons
stockpile.
The review indicated an urgent need for safety modifications
to seven separate weapons systems to assure reliability and to avoid
inadvertent nuclear detonations.''
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Safety modifications for weapons
which were approaching obsolescence, was questioned in
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