te len . - - : - ee . . . . me moo roup-3 : " ervals ; AYFBdy CO CFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 7g Washington, D. C. 2 y¥ €ar Owings ‘es - ee Sete . Zz. + 2 February 1919 declassified. Dt. WAR COUNCIL TENTATIVE AGESDA for Meeting of the War Council at 10:00 AM on 6 February 1919 1. Briefing by a representative of the State Devartment on develonments in the field of foreign relations. * U. S. policies szoverning the use of certain new weapons and release of information regarding the capabilities or, defense agninst, and ase of these weapons. in commenting upon the question of whether the extracted versicn of tue Pikini Report should be released, Dr. Bush suggests that a small top-level group of private citizens be organized to prepare recommendations to the Sresident as to: a. the circumstances under wiich the U. S. snuould use the and wecpors of biological warfare, chemical warfare end radiological warfare; atomic bomb } t e3 rt ~ i Ss ou &QO & “wes nS = Li S&S | == ~ a b. The information which should be relcased to the public concerning these decisions and conczsrnin; the capabilities of, : and defense against,vthese weapons. A copy of Dr. Bush's lettcr is atteched 2s Exnibit 2a. Exnibit 2-b is an outline of the questions raised directly or indirectly by Dr. Bush end 2 statencnt of prcvicus action with respect co these issucs tacen in the Var council and the Netional Sccurity MQ = Wo Council. s < Lxhibit @-c is < copy of the memorandum from Dr. Compton in which ne comments on Dr. sush'!s proposal and sucgusts certain modifications. S28 a The discussion of this item will be preceded by a bricf statement by Dr. Compton on the capebilitics of chemical, biclovical and rediolo.ical warfare. BEST CO py AVAILABLE Action Required 3 jay The Var Council should discuss the issucs raised by Dr. Bush's proposal (as outlined in Exhibit 2-b) in the lizcht of prusent circunstances and previous action, and agree upon the action which should be taken with respect to them. —