relocated Amchitka sea otters to new hames in an attempt to rebuild the sea otter population. In a dramatic gesture to demonstrate his faith that the Cannikin shot would not touch off serious seismic disturbances, Commission Chaimman James R. Schlesinger took his wife and two daughters to the island for the November 6, 1971 test shot. - As the Commission tested, the United States and the Soviet Union found more common ground for arms control agreements. treaties banned muclear weapons testing, storage, A series of or deployment in Antarctica (AntarcticTreaty, 1959), outer space (Outer Space Treaty, 1967), Latin America (Treaty of Tlateloco, 1967), and on the ocean floor (Sea-Bed Treaty, 1971). In 1969 the two superpowers began a series of strategic arms limitation (SALT) talks aimed at halting the development of anti-ballistic missile systems. By 1972 the talks had produced agreements which would help to keep nuclear war fram starting and reduce Soviet missile production. The SALT agreements led President Nixan to proclaim that the era of confrontation between America and the Soviet Uniion had been successfully transfomned into an era of negotiations.°” The Cammission not only continued to perfect nuclear weapons but also investigated new ways to produce weapons and fissionable materials. In the concept of laser fusion, Cammission scientists explored the | ability of high-energy lasers to induce thermonuclear reactions in small Geuterium-tritium pellets. power implications the Because laser fusion had military as well as Cammission counted it as a weapon program. Commission scientists also examined the potential use of lasers to separate isotopes of uranium. become a large program. >4 By 1974 laser isotope separation had