"Meeting #1376, 21 May 1958:
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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.
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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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