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THE

PRESIDENT

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ADVISORY

L,

Executive Office Buildlng Washington, D. C.

March

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:

FOR

SPECIAL

FOR

NATIONAL

Transmittal

In accordance a6 approved

herewith

a report

studies

ASSISTANT

1958

TO THE

SECURITY

PRESIDENT

AFFAIRS

of Report

with Action

Council, three

THE

28,

No.

1840

of the National

by the President

on January

of the Ad Hoc Working

Group

in the area

of nuclear

9,

Security

1958,

devoted

I submit

L

to the following

testing: Z@%

“(a]

A study quent

of the losses

on a total

spe ci~ic

to the United

.waapension

future

States

of nuclear

I ,.,

conaae-

test e at Lim)

dates.

. “(b)

A symmetrical

“(c)

study

would

accrue

using

the same

A study

from

cessation

hypothetical

of the technical

a te aat suspension, surveillance The Ad Hoc repre 6entatives Committee, 1%\

mission

Working

and the Central

itself from

losses

a cessation

military

feasibility

S. R. , a complete

have

required

the se are

extensive

que etion of policy of nuclear

with

of

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this

nuclear

the Group losses

of these

and to

considered

some

and the

its

there

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to the U. S.

by the Department to whether

limited

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military from

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technical

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of monitoring result

of these

U.S.

the outline es of a

in preparing

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of tests.

implications

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Agency.

Group,

that would

testing,

of monitoring

system.

submitting

of Defense,

that

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feasibility

including

Intelligence

Working

to the technical

the technical

of nuclear

by the Pre sident’s

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to the USSR

date

and inspection Gropp

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of its contents person

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of Transmittal

Summary A.

CONTENTS

of the Present

U.

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S.

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Long

Range

Detection

System B.

C.

The Technical

Feasibility

1.

At the Earthls

2.

At Very

Surface

3.

Below

the Earthls

Tests

Conducted

5. 6.

Detection Net Risk of Detection

7.

Weapons

The

Losses

to the U.

S.

3.

AICBM Warheads Very Small Warheads

8. 9. 10.

and

2 2

China

2 the USSR

3 A.

Implications

5

and to the USSR from

Cessation

Te sting

U.

7.

the USSR

4

Development

Asymmetries

6.

Suspension

Surface

1.

5.

Over

Outside

2. 4.

A Test

and at Low Altitudes

High Altitudes

4.

of Nuclear

of Monitoring

S.

and USSR

Nuclear

in U.

S.

Effects Soviet

Table

Needs

8 8 10

Cessation

Laboratories

10

Espionage

10

Through

Technical

Capabilities

in the Field

Appendix

A. Report on the Detection of Nuclear Tests --Present and Potential Capabilities and Limitations for the Detection of Nuclear

Appendix \

B.

by Hans

Tests, Detection

A.

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report

by AFOAT-1,

of High Altitude

Bethe

,., , ,.

6

7 Position

of A Test

1. U. S. and USSR of Nuclear Weapons

5

Warhead

7

on W capons Gains

Capabilities Nuclear

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Boosted Warheads Summary of Relative Clean Weapons Military Effects

Warhead and USSR

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U. Nuclear

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Air Tests,

Force report

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TAB LE

Appendix

C.

Concealment

Underground, Appendix

D.

Warhead

report

OF

CONTENTS

and Detection by Harold

Brown

( Cent’d)

of Nuclear and Hans

Tests A.

33ethe

Chart of Present and Future U. S. Nuclear Developments, report by the U. S. Atomic Energy

Commission Appendix E. Jmpact of a September 1958 Nuclear Test Moratorium on Soviet Nuclear Weapons Capabilities, by the

Central

Intelligence

Agency

report

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Feasibility the Working

1840 c.

Group

Advisory

Commission,

for

transmittal

of the Ad Hoc

of a Cessation

with NS C Action Science

for

Killian:

We Council

D.

1958

Jr.

to the President

and Technology

Washington

27,

of Nuclear

Committee,

and Central

Group

Testing

The report

wh~ch included

to the National

Working

established

is concurred

Department

in accordance

in by all members

representation

Intelligence

Security

on the Technical

from

of

the President’s

of Defense,

Atomic

Energy

Agency.

“) Hans

Bethe,

Cornell

University

Chairman Harold

Brown,

Radiation Maj.

Gen.

Herbert

University

of California

Laboratory Richard

Loper,

Coiner,

Office

USAF

of the Secretary

of Defense Carson

Mark,

Los

Alamos

Scientific

Laboratory Doyle

Northrup,

Herbert

AFOAT

Scoville,

Intelligence Roderick

- 1,

Jr., Agency Los

Spence,

USAF

Central Alamos

Scientific

Laboratory Brig.

Gen.

Energy Col.

Lester

Herbert

‘)

Alfred

Starbird,

Atomic

Commission Woodward,

York,

Radiation

Laboratory

Research

Projects

Department

USAF

University

of California and Advanced

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of Defense

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the installation

of about

the territories —-—-.—— b.

the right

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and

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the Working ~els improve si~nificantiy yields

test;

to overfly

cove rag e of the entire

cribed

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on certain An additiona~

stations

China; .

of immediate

round c.

and

without

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are

discus

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risk

B

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that the USSR could its nuclear weapon capability, a great

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CIA member

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the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency

factors

of nuclear

affecting

tests.~1

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