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and AEC in attendance. The memo goes into some detail on the various
persons' arguments against the advisability of going to either Bikini
or Eniwetok for the testing and states that it was the consensus of the
group that we should look very carefully at the possibility of using

either Johnston or Christmas, and only move to EPG if the factors dis-

cussed are out-weighed by other considerations.

On 2 Nov. Foster sent a TWX to Betts responding to Betts' 27 Oct. TWX
mentioned above. Foster addresses the advantages of underground testing,
the possibilities for developing improved capabilities underground for
the future and addresses in a great deal of detail the advantages of the
tunnel method of underground testing as opposed to vertical holes.
A 4 Nov. TWX from Betts to ALO and the Labs is included in notes from

other folders and it addresses in part the decisions of the National
Security Council which met on Nov. 2 on the subject of atmospheric
testing.

On 8 Nov. Maj. Rosen of the DMA Test Office wrote an internal memo on
the subject of properly diagnosing or best diagnosing the atmospheric

tests.

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