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The occasion for my first meeting with Richard Nixon after he became president was an aide-mémoire that the Soviet chargé d’affaires had handed the State Department on the first day of the new administration. The note alleged that there had been a possible violation of the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) in connection with the December 8, 1968, explosion in Nevada of an excavation experiment named Schooner in AEC’s program for the peaceful uses of atomic explosions.
I have long favored a drastic escalation of our testing program for the peaceful use of atomic explosives … I think we should be very aggressive in going forward.
—President Richard M. Nixon, January 25, 19691
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© 1993 Glenn T. Seaborg
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Seaborg, G.T., Loeb, B.S. (1993). The Demise of Plowshare. In: The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04834-9_2
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