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With the test program on his mind, President Kennedy met with white-haired John McCone, AEC chairman under Dwight Eisenhower, a longtime advocate of testing and the man who foresightedly had ordered the tunnels to be dug into Nevada mountains just in case the ban broke down. Now chairman of a Los Angeles steel corporation, McCone was invited to the White House to speak his mind -and, for an hour and a quarter, he did just that. McCone approved Kennedy's decision to resume testing, urged the President not to declare himself against atmospheric tests, since "outer-space tests...
...fine conduct of McCone and Olmstead while in Soviet custody is certainly praiseworthy. Unlike Francis Gary Powers, who at first opportunity convicted himself (and his country), McKone and Olmstead remained quiet, without committing our nation to resentment and abuse...
...report, signed by outgoing AEC Chief John McCone and the three commissioners who will remain under the new Administration, argued that further testing by either side would achieve "major advances in weapons design.'' Behind their wall of secrecy the Soviets could test clandestinely either underground or in outer space. "The military advantages to be gained from clandestine nuclear testing are great." said the report. "The probabilities of detecting and identifying clandes tine tests are very small." The Neutron Bomb. Pentagon worriers go a step farther than AEC. They argue that the U.S. cannot afford to remain stagnant...
...such proposals founder on the shoals of one inescapable problem: with a totalitarian monolith, there can be no mutual trust. "Control systems are dependent upon an open society," says retiring AEC Chairman John McCone. "There can be no safe arrangement for the control of atomic or hydrogen weapons if countries such as the Soviet Union, its satellites and Red China insist upon secrecy...
...Allen Dulles reported that the CIA had no evidence that Russia had ever shown any interest in testing to develop tactical nuclear weapons. Any break in Russia's wall of suspicion and secrecy, he added, would be to the U.S.'s interests. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone, arguing that the U.S. needs underground tests to develop tactical nuclear weapons, found himself almost alone in the Administration's top councils, and at the end the President ruled against...