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in the event development at the Geneva Test cessessation negotiations
should make the recomputation unnecessary."
Meeting #1749, 12 June 1961:
In attendance at this Commission Meeting was Wilmot
N. Hess of
Livermore who had lately been at the Geneva negotiations.
He reviewed
for the Commission the recent status of the Geneva negotiations and
this in the ensuing discussion are most interesting and will be extracted
for our files.
The discussions included, among other trings, various
British opinions as to whether the U.S. should resume testing; the
opinion of Mr. Hess that "the U.S. should be prepared to resume testing
before the commencement of the General Disarmament Negotiations
on July 3lst.
He believed it would be undesirable to resume testing
after the disarmament talks began.
Chairman Seaborg said, however,
it would be extremely difficult to prepare for nuclear tests to be conducted
prior to August 1.''
The opinions of the State Department and various
other pertinent people as to whether the tests should be for seismic
improvement or for weapons development are also discussed.
On 20 June 1961, ina meeting with the Commissioners,
Bradbury and
Foster presented a briefing on weapons testing and the possibilities of
cr
test resumption, asa predlude to the discussions the next day with the
JCAE.
These summary notes are extracted for our files.
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