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Meeting #1366, 29 April 1958:
Perhaps someindication of the increased and accelerating pressures
on declaring a test moratorium are indicated by a couple items here.
"Strauss said that during a conversation with Mr. Bernard Baruch,
. Mr.
Baruch had suggested that a reply be made to Mr. Albert Schweitzer's
recent statement calling for the halting of nuclear weapons tests.
reply,
Baruch said, would be most effective if it
were
The
made by a
distinguished public figure with a large popular following. 7 Libbey
was requested to prepare the material for such a statement and the
Commissioners all agreed that this then could be used to provide to
such an individual as Baruch would locate.
"Mr.
Libbey remarked that,
aside from the Commissioners themselves,
the AEC had received relatively little support for its position that U.S.
weapons testing should not be completely halted. The fact thatthe _
question has become a political issue has restricted persons employed
by AEC from speaking out freely about it,
Mr. Libbey said.
He suggested
that it would be helpful if the support of Senate leaders such as Lynden
Johnson and William Knowland could be enlisted in presenting to the
public the case for continued testing."
Meeting #1367,
30 April 1958:
A proposal by the Air Force to test both the Nike-Hercules missile
and the Fighter-Interceptcr/MB-1 using nuclear warheads was presented.
The DOD said that it would be impossible to y.repare for testing these
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