9 September

said various types
LRL reply to Betts' 7 Sept. message
ed.
need
of above gd. effects tests

dinated with AEC).
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ses how Vela
) 2 Septomber_196!: discus
- Betts to Hertford TWX (SRD
going to
now
sed with Ist priority
Uniform goals should be addres
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weapons testing.

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September 1961.

BRIEFLY - Shoal and Porpoise inactive.
- Linen cancelled.
from
- Orchid goals can be fulfilled
~ Stingray requests can be fulfilled
- Lollipop requests can be fulfilled
partly
- Crystal and Muslin requests

Chickadee test.
by
by Hardhat (if approved).
addressed using 45, Arrow,

Lance |, and Lance I1.

the sliding of states
arrest in good time
."
of a rocket nuclear war

into the inferno

;
‘

Geneva test ban
Thirty-four month-old
definite recess."
conference goes into “in

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of operation,
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september —

Vela participation.
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a of 3 September
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ts and asks for conto ban atmospheric tes
ce treaty ‘so as to
clusion of a German pea

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on new medium.

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query from Bett
in response to a
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as to what
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to his Laborato
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