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‘SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE
-WASHINGTON
October 27, 1952
MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE
SUBJECT; Advance Notification to the United Kingdom and
Canada of United States Atomic Tests
By memorandum of October 13,
1952 I requested the views
of the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission
on the question whether the United Kingdom and Canada should
be given advance: notification of the forthcoming. IVY series.
along the lines of notification previously given for earlier
test series.
By memorandum dated October 15 from Mr. LeBaron
I was informed that the Secretary of Defense concurred in the
proposed advance notification.
On October 22 I met with Acting
Chairman Smyth and Commissioners Murray and Glennan to discuss
in detail the various problems presented by the proposal.
was the consensus of the meeting,
after some discussion,
It
that
I should proceed with the advance notification on the IVY series
as in the past.
I pointed out that my general advance notifi-
cation to the British and the Canadians would be followed at a
later date by more precise notification through AFOAT channels
of the exect time of the shots and of the meteorological condi-
tions existing at the time in order to facilitate British and
Canadian interception of the clouds.
No objection was raised
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