an operation might bring. Hesine statement also reflects his feelings at that time on underground testing: "All FR 1 am saying at the moment is that it would be a good thing if we could find a practical way to test at Enlwetok more frequently than every 2 years but that | am not very interested at present In a continuous test ability at Nevada particularly If [t has to be underground.” 52: Meeting #1340, 7 March Cpe Some comments of General Starbird in addressing the upcoming budgets for weapons testing and other related projects are pertinent: summer of 59, it is planned to conduct a harbor excavation with a nuclear device at Point Barrow, Alaska. ''during the, | 2” experiment ~--Starbird said that it was his belief that in the near future, the US would adopt a policy either of continuous weapons testingor testing all weapons underground, and slated intelligence reports of increasing numbers of Soviet weapons _ test series and of greater number of weapons being tested in cach series.