an operation might bring. Hesine statement also reflects his feelings
at that time on underground testing: "All
FR
1 am saying at the moment is
that it would be a good thing if we could find a practical way to test
at Enlwetok more frequently than every 2 years but that | am not very
interested at present In a continuous test ability at Nevada particularly
If [t has to be underground.”
52:
Meeting #1340, 7 March
Cpe
Some comments of General Starbird in addressing the upcoming budgets
for weapons testing and other related projects are pertinent:
summer of 59, it is planned to conduct a harbor excavation
with a nuclear device at Point Barrow, Alaska.
''during the, | 2”
experiment
~--Starbird said that
it was his belief that in the near future, the US would adopt a policy
either of continuous weapons testingor testing all weapons underground,
and slated intelligence reports of increasing numbers of Soviet weapons
_ test series and of greater number of weapons being tested in cach series.