SECRET o~2~ (d) Announcement of readying Nevade Proving Ground for a series of tests in late winter 1955 - September 25, 1954. (e) Response to correspondent!s inquiries on announcement of the establishment of a small staff section of Joint Task Force Seven ~ October 15, 1954. 2. As directed by the Board, the Working Group developed draft guidelines for a major domestie address by the President of the United States on the subject "The United States in the Nuclear Age", Sig~ nificant portions of this draft were utilized by the President in his Labor Day Speech in connection with the ground-breaking ceremonies for the first commercially-sponsored nuclear electric power plant at Shippingport, Pa, Other significant sections, principally those dealing with problems of nuclear disarmament, were utilized in speeches by members of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations. 3. On a limited basis, liaison was continued with the departmental and agency domestic information officers who were concerned with the implementation of the peaceful application of nuclear energy outlined in the President's December 8th speech. The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare evinced the most interest in this program, and continued to utilize significant oppor- REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHT D. EISENBOWER LIBRARY tunities to develop public statements and events which could be crossreported in USIA's overseas output, 4e In addition to the foregoing, the Atomic Energy Camission, ‘BECBEE —