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Training programs, provision of technical information and
consulting services to aid other countries in building up their
capabilities to use atomic energy (para, 5c - NSC 5431/1). {the
Director, FOA, has instituted a series of capabilities within his
agency to support the technical training of foreign students in
nuclear subjects on a non-classified basis,/
12.
AppraisalofEffectiveness.
During the period under review
evidence continued to accumulate that the President's peaceful uses
program enlisted a large measure of world public opinion support.
In the view of the London Economist, which to a large degree is
representative of suphisticated international political opinion, the
proposal constituted "genuine psychological warfere",
13.
MajorEmergingProblems.
The planned series of nuclesr
weapons tests, both in Nevada and in the Pacific Proving Grounds,
can be expected to raise various climate of opinion problems abroad,
especially in the Far East.
On behalf of the Operations Coordinating
Board, the Working Group will be in a position to advise the
respective operating agencies as to their public information plans
for those events, and will be prepared to recommend whatever actions
May be necessary to minimize such climate of opinion adverse effects
of such testing as may occur.
14.
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of the effects of thermo-nuclear
to foreign climate of opinion abroad, and could adversely affect U.S.
international security interests, and may require exploration by the
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