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LIVERMORE DIRECTOR'S FILES
"42-1 DOD GENERAL" FOLDER

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Here in June of 1958 is a letter and a lengthy Memorandum from the President
of Sandia Corporation on the subject of Division of Responsibility Between the
AEC and the DOD in Weapons Testing and bringing up in some detail the problems
with trying to separate the output measurements from the effects measurements

and defining whose responsibility is whose.
Meeting #1380, 6 June 1958:
The action taken against the "golden rule" vessel which attempted to

sail into the Pacific Test Area during Hardtack is noted that three

crew members had been given 60-ilay jail sentences for attempting
to sail into the area against a court order.

‘As fora

test moratorium inspection,

and Lawrence,

Strauss met with Fisk, Bacher,

members of the U.S. team appointed by the President

to negotiate a weapons test moratorium inspection system and said that
they inquired about the possibility of conducting another underground
weapons test at the NTS.

They said that the Rainier shot had not provided

‘sufficient information about underground test detection and suggested
that a larger tese

be conducted so that they might ‘collect additional

data.

he made them aware that a second tunnel at

Strauss said

the NTS might be completed by October and said that they would write
the AEC requesting acceleration of preparations for this test.

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