A 30 April TWX from Starboard to Teller and Brown with info to Bradbury
addresses some discussion going on related to what we could hope to
accomplish on what time scales in the way of certain types of weapons
development we could test.
Starboard seems to have certain pieces of
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Information from Teller but asks for elaboration and he sets up several
cases of graduated achievement of the test ban
over a period of time and
asks what the effect would be on weapons development.
Case !, for instance,
would provide that between October 1958 and and July of 1960 no shot had
been fired over 3KT but there might have been certain firings of this yield
and below whereas between now and July of 1962 no undecoupfed shot greater
than {OKT could be fired and that there could be a few partially decoupled
shots up to 50 KT at 3,000 ft. depth.
Furthermore, after July of 1962 shots
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must be less than 5 KT with all stopping by 1964.
Case 2, on the other
hand, would include afl of case | except that a few, perhaps 5 outer
‘ space shots, could be conducted between now and 1964.
Starboard asks for
elaboration of the initial comments by Teller and comments from both LASL
and Livermore on this subject.
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