; Meeting #1352 oA pri 58:l Chairman Strauss attended a meeting this same day at the Pentagon with representatives from the State Department, the DOD, and James ; Amn fe fom Killian to consider the question of transferring the high altitude shots “ to JI. * “ The DOD indicated that they favored carrying out the shots as scheduled at Enewetok and Dulles agreed with the AEC that, if the shots were carried out at Enewetok and any incident occurred involving the natives, such an incident would be a serious threat to any continuation of Hardtack. ‘After further discussion, the representatives of the AEC and Departments of State and Defense had agreed to transfer the high altitude shots to JI. He added that the Department of Defense representatives were, howerer, reluctant to approve the change and that although he was relieved that the decision had been made, he was still concerned about the possibility of personal injury resulting from the shots. " Further discussion had to do with recent information that seemed to indicate that the cye burn hazard was less than earlier predicted and , Starbird would been touch with Ludeke immediately as to accelerating the efforts to transfer the facilities to JI and set up a shot date as early as possible. April .. US rejects Sovict proposal for uninspected test ban. President Eisenhower suggests international conference of technicians to study control measures. PARES Cc K .