o ze On 15 November Chairman Seaborg sent to the AEC General Manager a copy of the "Presidential Instructions to the NSC Committee on Atmospheric Testing Policy'' which gives the guidance for this committee to consider the proposed programs submitted by the Atomic Energy Commission. In part the Presidential instructions contain the following guidelines: "tests will be conducted in “™ the atmosphere only if: (a) the test will provide information of substantial importance to the national defense. (b) The information needed can be obtained no other way, with reasonable time and effort. (c) Atmospheric fallout is minimized in all practicable ways. (d)} The military need for the tests out weighs the desirability of avoiding all atmospheric fallout. Preparations for atmospheric testing will be directed toward: (a) Test readiness in 4 months. (b) Concentration of atmospheric tests in the shortest possible time period with a target of about 3 months. The committee will consicer and recommend to the President on the need for providing the capability to conduct follow-on tests. The study requested by the President (NSC record of action 2440-c) of the availability of sites for atmospheric tests will be directed toward obtaining, on a priority basis, a suitable island test base. The committee will submit to the President for decision the carrying out of each atmospheric test. (a) For the present, the committee should limit its recommendations to tests which relate to important questions of weapons development and weapons effects. (b) Approval of either proof tests or systems tests can be expected only if there is convincing demonstration of unusual need in each case. A22 Budgetary questions arising out of test preparations will be reviewed by the committee, in consultation with the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. The President has decided that : (a) No FY 63 budget proposals for the financing of test preparations will be made public. (b) FY 62 expenditures will be financed by use of the emergency funds, with a supplemental request to be made as necessary." A memo for Chairman Seaborg from General Betts on 16 November while transmitting the list from each laboratory of the proposed devices to be tested in the atmosphere it mentions for the first time that I have seen General Starbird as commander of JTF8. A 16 November TWX from Graves of Los Alamos to Gen. Betts asks that induced tsunami in Hawaii in the case of an accidental surface burst be added as a safety consideration in connection with off-Hilo operations. EE A 16 November memo for Col. Anderson of DMA from a Col. Banks of the R&D Le ; Le Branch addresses ord that as of this rec s t he fact £ or the note on er emb Nov 16 on ce den pon res Cor istm as Island ted Kingdom for the use of Chr Uni the with ions tiat npgo date were already underway.