his point across that at the moment "nothing would be worked
out except general
and complete disarmerment and then of course there would
be no nuclear -weapons
to test."
In discussion later on amosngst the three of them, Tsarap
kin reiterated
his points and kept noting
the plans of the militerists in the Western Countires
to destroy the Soviet Union and its people with nuclea
r warfare and noting that
this did not have to do with the sincere efforts of the
nego€iators but had to
do only with the militarists.
Here is a 4 Dec. 61 memo from Miller to Reeves documented a 30 Nov. meeting
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at ALO of key AEC Dominic personnel, including Ogle, and since this secret
PR
document with many details of the organization and set-up for the overseas
open sea plan are contained herein, I will copy it in its entirety for our
files.
Here is a4 Dec. 1961 memorandum for Johnson from Starbird which is, I believe,
the first progress report of JIF-8.
Starbird states that JTF-8 is developing a
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concept of operations for an open seas initially with later phases to be conducted
in the open seas or at Christmas Island should it become available.
Various
proposals from the services for the high altitude events are being studied by his
staff with the booster reliability, system availability, and data collection
requirements being addressed.
Johnston Island is considered to be the location
for these events-unless the Navy proposal for firing from a ship is adopted.
The
JTF position on the high altitude testing will be forwarded to the Chief of DASA
by 6 Dec.
The Task Force is also studying the location of and execution of the
LASL surface tests in the Pacific.
As for manning, the 51 of the 69 persons required have reported and the initial
increment should be filled by 15 Dec.
S$ - 10 December
Ogle, Shook (AFSIC}, Ryan (H & N), and British went
to Christmas Island to investigate possibilities as
test base.
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