InN,
BOE;
r np irr
ete oe
LIVERMORE DIRECTOR'S FILES
"42-1 DOD GENERAL" FOLDER
_ NA
:
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.
G