ye.
Meeting #1752, 23 June 1961:
vous
In a discussion of AEC 1029/19, the Chairman noted this 22 June letter
from Gilpatric’ which informed the AEC of Bundy's request for a draft
of the AEC-DOD paper on the resumption of testing.
Thus, the Chairman
requested preparation of a draft of the AEC position by 26 June.
Meeting #1753,
28 June 1961:
The AEC budget review committee, having just completed a tour of the
AEC laboratories, presented comments on the budget needs and associated
programs,
including test related funding, of LASL, Sandia, and
Livermore, among others.
The comments are extracted for future
reference in our files.
Note that there was essentially no mention of the subject of test resumption
explicitly in the Commission meetings at all during the summer until
after test resumption in September.
As a ‘natter of fact, the first
formal consideration that the test resumption program got by the Comnission
was in Meeting #1770, 13 September 1961, as documented by AEC 1077/5
and the extract from this meetings minutes, in our files.
Meeting #1773,
15 September 1961:
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Following lengthy discussions on Operation Nouget at earlier meetings,
the discussion at this meeting was of the Commission's letter to the
President requesting authorization for the test series, Commissioner
Graham''recalled the Commissioner's had said the letter should point
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out to the President the desirability of authoring the Commission flexibility
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