Meeting #1331, 5 February 58: paesanenn ATOTC"CT Mr. Floberg said that recent statements made by Senator Humphrey indicated he didn't clearly understand the problems with halting AIA ey te ‘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 ! that Captain Morse,the chairmans special assistant for NSC affairs, should present a short briefing on the subject to Senator Humphrey. LA M & R Records Center OL, 231.2, and 334 Bethe" Folders This is just to document that the so-called Bethe panel existed prior to 1958 a, as I gather from some correspondence by Bethe and the Air Force, it was a . Che Air force. mnittee on foreign tests." L and Bethe himself called it the "evaluations Vr mmm oye mnittee formed to advise The members of the panel in mid-57 included Bethe, xk, Cowan, Spence, Street, Harold Brown, and Anthony Turkevich of the University * Chicago. A letter from Starbid to Bradbury on 20 February 58 refers to the "Bethe Panel > the Killian committee," so apparently this panel was attached to Killian who at 1e time I believe was President Eisenhower's scientific advisor. This letter ‘ansmitted a table prepared by the Bethe panel which Listed specific types of sapons and their expected position in their evolution after HARDTACK testing, i well as the further development which would be possible but would be cut off * no further testing were possible after HARDTACK. _ | . F