but more generally on the Test Ban Treaty and the effects on the weapons
laboratories.
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Since the highest classification on this is confidential I will
get a copy for our files.
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The next set of activities in pushing PLOWSHARE
documented in this folder came in May of 1960, when on ll.May , Teller presented
the program m the most urgent projects as far as Livermore could see, to the
President and members of the Cabinet.
I will make a copy of the letter documenting
the highlights of this presentation as well as the replies
Wilson and Kistiakowsky,
from Commissioner
Eisenhower's scientific advisor.
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May-matbex
to the President, Teller identifies as the most ambitious of PLOWSHARE
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projects the’Colevel Trans Isthmign Canal, which requires two preparatory
steps as follows:
first, the development of nuclear explosives such as
envisaged in our
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proposal (which eliminates certain hazards to
personnel) and, second, atrial run ona reasonably large scale.
step, it is proposed to carry out the Chariot project in Alaska.
For the latter
The 23 May
letter from Commissioner Wilson to Teller notes that he has had good reports
on the PLOWSHARE presentation before the Cabinet and particularly on the
Panama Canal project and finishes '' I trust it is hardly necessary to urge you to
emphasize (before Senator Kerr's Committee, on May 26)
in all such appearances
that PLOWSHARE is practically stymied at present unless we resume testing,
at least for this purpose."
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There is no further correspondence of interest in this folder, or before 1962.