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Meeting #1328, 31 January 58:
The President had approved informally the first 6 months of Hardtack
but had some questions regarding the fall testing for the NTS.
Meeting #1331, 5 February 58:
Mr. Floberg said that recent statements made by Senator Humphrey
indicated he didn't clearly understand the problems with haulting
nuclear weapons testing and Humphrey was under the impression that
it
is impossible to conduct a weapons test without other countries
being able to detect each shot.
The discussion ended with the feeling
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that Captain Morse the chairmans special assistant for NSC affairs,
should present a short briefing on the subject to Senator Humphrey.
Meeting #1337, 26 February 58:
As has been discussed for the month or so previous to this,
discussion
continued at this meeting on the question of a so called observer
demonstration test during Hardtack .
This apparently would be one test
that would be open to international observation ard for which there
exists the possibility of allowing nations to get radioactive samples
for either their own or U.S. analysis to determine the cleanliness of the
detonation.
The discussion continued with a lot of strong pros and cons
at this meeting and it was not decided what the concgensus recommedation
should be but it was pointed out that President Eisenhower had indicated
that there would be such a test and for him to retract this now would be
a problem.
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