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very thoroughly the criteria that were set up for conducting the tests,
It ig my understanding that it has been rather unusual weather out
there, I don't see yet that we are ready to assume that you can't
run a series of tests reasonably on schedule. It was recognized that
you would not have these big ones on schedule, but you would hope
to complete the whole series in a reasonable time.
COMMISSIONER LIBBY: Maybe the furor will die down as we
go through the series, after we have had the bomb on Monday or
Tuesday.
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: Yes, and it was a little one yesterday.
But they made as much fuss about it as if it had been a big one.
COMMISSIONER LIBBY: How big was it?
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: Four KT.
CCMMISSIONER LIBBY: I[ think somehow, Lewis, we ought to
be very slow, I was disappointed to learn from the General Manager's
report this morning that Los Alamos and Livermore are talking about
cancelling Dixie, That sets it back.
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: I don't think that is on account of any
pressures of this sort. It is on account of other reasons,
COMMISSIONER LIBBY: Maybe they have the same reason,
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS:
No, I think when Graves reads this
letter he will be very surprised,
MR, NICHOLS: I certainly am considering the previous reports
I got from people in conversation with Anderson,
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: There is a Nevada legislator who has
introduced a bill in the Nevada legislature, according to one of the
Las Vegas papers, asking us to move out of the state. Both of the
Las Vegas papers, which seldom agree on anything, published
editorials agreeing that this was nonsense, that we brought a lot of
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