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Under a full disarmament agreement, in addition to the above

mentioned possibilities, a major effort would have to be put into reworking the
present weapons into the best possible weapons that could be put into stockpile .
without additional testing.

This of course assumes an agreement with the present

stockpile frozen except for reworking and continued maintenance.

He further states more generally: 'The second part of our guidance would be
to advise you to make plans ona strictly confidential basis which you could
hold in readiness to reorganize your work and re-slot people should a cessation
actually occur.

The existence of such plans we believe should be closely held

by you to prevent their developing in the laboratory a feeling that you, and we,

-believe a moratoriumon cessation is immediate."

Generally, the guidance

would attempt to get the labs to sort of realign their philosophy and use of
people and resources to do the best job with basic research and developmental
efforts, without testing, to best employ and retain the good scientific pereonnel.

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