Here is @ copy of the minutes from the first meeting of the JERICHO coordinating
committee at Livermore on 2 and 3 April 58.
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Jerry Johnson led the discussion and
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apparently was heading up the program at this time and seemed to.feel that wmless
®& definite committment iaxgmatumd to go shead with this program could be made within
the month, Livermore would consider it hed not further obligations with respect to the
WEHKEHD JERICHO experiment.
In addition to outlining the organization and funding
channels end listing the diagnostic and effects measurments to be made and by whom,
some discussion indicated that measurements were planned on the EVANS event in
MILL RACE at NTS in the Fall of 58 to get some basic information necessary for design
of the JERICHO experiments.
Sendia at this time said they did not have ‘the manpower
to do an experiment in the Fell of 58.
Meeting #1351, 4 April 58:
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The discussion on the high altitude snots continucd, with the inclusion of
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General Loper, assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy. A a
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Clearly the JCS is not anxious to move the shots or even to delay them
and rather lengthy discussion ensued at this meeting and , since it is not
classified, I will make a copy of it to attach to these notes.
Also of interest is that there is a ship of people protesting the Pacific
testing, the "Golden Rule," on its way to the Pacific test area to carry
out thier protest; also a law suit has been filed in the District Federal
Court by fourteen scientists and others from the US and three other countries,
seeking an order to halt US nuclear testing.