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APPENDIX
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject:
Test of Atomic Weapons
On June 27, 1947, you approved the Atomic Energy
Commission's proposal for a program to tcst atomic weapons early
in 1948, directing that you be informed when 4 definitive plen
was ready, On July 19, 1947, you further approved a public
release which stated that the Atomic Energy Commission is
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establishing preving grounds In the Pacific for routine experx=
merits and tests of atomic weapons,
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The recommendation of the Commission, based on technical
requirements, that Eniwetok Atoll] be tho test sits, was approved
by the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
No other site but Enivetok fa:
suitable and none other is as faasible considering present ~~
Other islands in the
Pacific, includingnon-TrustTerritory, will of course be
involved in the logisticalpreparation and support of the tesc,
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installations and logistic requirements.
It has been cetermined by the Atomic Energy Commission that the
use of Enivetok will require the evacuation of 145 natives,
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is recommended-that the Secretary of Defense bo directed by the
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President to effect this evacuation,
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In order to insure that the United States meets fully tts
international obligations under the Chorter of the United Nutitans
and
in connection with the Trusteeshio Agreement entered
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with the United States and the Security Council respectingthe
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Trust Territ or
£ the Pacific
svecial rovistions will be madc
for local inhabitents as follows:
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1. They will be accorded all rights which are the normal
constitutional rights cf citizens under the Constitution, but
will be dealt
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whom this
country has _ special rasponsibdilitics,
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