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Discussion centered primarily around the third suggestion in Tocsin's three point. "Unilateral Initiative" recommendation. Well explained that international teams of scientists be invited to participate in the nuclear test phases of Project Vela...
...conclusion, Tocsin presented a three-point plan toward a nuclear test ban, urging the U.S. to continue its moritorium on tests "as long as there exist reasonable prospects of a satisfactory agreement," and to invite other parties in test-ban negotiations to participate in Project Vela, a U.S. research project on test inspection systems
Amid the excitement about the U2, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty read to newsmen an announcement that, against the background of rumblings in Moscow, sounded deliberately provocative. President Eisenhower, said the announcement, had approved a massive boost, from $10 million to $66 million, in funds for Project Vela, a program of research on detection of underground nuclear tests-and Vela would include, "where necessary, nuclear explosions." Largely because of the awkward timing, the word buzzed far and wide that the President, in reaction to the shooting down of the U-2 and Nikita Khrushchev's tough talk, had decided...
...East-West program of research on underground test detection would have to be carried out solely with conventional explosives, agreed to include a "strictly limited number" of nuclear explosions. Viewed in the light of Tsarapkin's concession and the previous history of the test-ban negotiations, Project Vela seemed entirely peaceable...
With Congressman David Vela, editor of the daily Impartial, leading the way, the opposition heatedly pointed out that even after the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico no such drastic law was passed because, as Vela put it, "it would give legal weapons of oppression to the government." Vela said that President Carlos Castillo Armas is "a tolerant man, but let us remember that we are legislating not only for now but for the future as well-and the future may bring a capricious or oppressive President...