Meeting No.
1372, 9 May 1958:
Further indications of pressures to discontinue testing are a request
from Representative Porter to present his views on the need fora
test cessation to the Commission and the Commissioner's feelings
that they should meet with him provided the JCAE had no objections.
Also,
Commission Graham visited earlier in the afternoon witha
group of Pacifists who were staging a hunger strike in the Lobby of
the AEC Headquarters Building.
Also, Libbey discussed with Starbird
the possibility of utilizing sites in Chile and Utah for underground
weapons detonations and the possibility of interesting oil companies in
nuclear explosions for their purposes.
Meeting #1376, 21 May 1958:
The Commission discussed and approved the declassification of
information relating to the Pinon shot of Hardtack, which I gather is
to be the shot which will be observed by U.N. observers.
The discussion
noted that the observers would receive short-range cloud samples from
which it could be determined that the device was a thermal nuclear
weapon.
Also the samples would give other information about the
materials in the device,
but the Commission determined
that this
information plus publicizing the fact that it is a stockpiled nuclear
weapon was acceptable.
Further discussion of the possible missile tests at Eglin led to the
following recommendations:
That the Commission advised the
Secretary of Defense that the AEC had no objection to the DOD conducting
these tests; that the AEC cooperate but not assume any responsibility
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