An 11 July 58 memo from Bradbury to 7 of the key scientists at LASL notes that Starbird is projecting about 18 tests for NTS in 59 and is afraid that Livermore (Teller) will automatically divide this number by 2 and con~clude that the number (9) for them is too small. fC While Bradbury didn’t say so to Starbird, he feels that 9 is probably too large for LASL and is asking the general question "Do we keep up with the Joneses"? In questioning just what items might=-have=that might be important and interesting to test, he mentions one that he would like to see wait for the next Eniwetok operation and interesting indicates by a question mark whether there will ever be a next Eniwetok operation. An i July 1958 letter from the acting AEC Chairman, Libby, to Teller is the +. next item chronologically in this folder and contains for Teller's information Z @ the answer just provided to Bradbury as to the question of what the AEC's guidance to the Laboratories would be in the event of a moratorium on weapons testing and/or production. * First of all, Libby notes that the Laboratories are institutions which are valuable national assets and must do important work in the event of either a test ban or a disarmament agreement. Along these lines, he feels that a period of 18 months or two years probably could be most profitably employed" in digesting and collating the results from plumbbob and Hardtack. Also, "experimental work at sub nuclear vields probably would be involved".