APPENDIX "G"
JOINT MESSAGERORM
FROM: HQ USAF
APOAT-1
WASH DC
TO:
Dr. Hans A. Bethe
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
CITE SWTD
8768
Starbird has submitted to us a question for the opinion
of the Bethe Panel.
The questions arise from the U.S. offer
to allow foreign observers at a test of a U.S.
clean weapon
where they will be shown to the extent practical without
revealing important nuclear design information,
device was relatively clean.
that the
Since preparations must go forward
immediately, he has asked for the earliest possible reply.
After detailed consultation it appears that there are two
possible ways of fulfilling this obligation.
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Total yield would be given observers
and,
so as to establish the portion of the debris analyzed,
a
tracer or tracers known to the observers and in known quantity
would be added to the weapon.
This method if it can be carried
through in some way without revealing important design information
would,
of course, be most convincing.
however,
We would have to assume,
that remote samples would be secured by the Soviet and
analyzed.
For the second approach,
two shots of a megaton or two
would be fired, one of standard design and one clean.
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