JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION SERVICES FOR DOMESTIC 34-362 O MAY 8, 9, AND JULY 17, 1969 Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY CHET HOLIFIELD, California, Chairman JOHN O. PASTORE, Rhode Island, Vice Chairman MELVIN PRICE, Illinois JOHN YOUNG, Texas ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma RICHARD B. RUSSELL, Georgia HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska EDWARD J. BAUSER, Executive Director (II) Kelly, John S., Director, Division of Peaceful Nuclear Explosives 7-78, 82-85, 161 Miller, Robert, Manager of the Nevada Operations Office_.. 63-64, 69, 82-85 Department of State, Herman Pollack, Director, International 133-162 McDonald, Robert E., vice president (also project manager, Wyoming Atomic Stimulation Project) –. Newman, Jack, counsel (Lowenstein & Newman) – U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Charles N. VanDoren, 137-160 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Page Extract from letter from Assistant Secretary of State Macomber to Senator "First Quarterly Progress Report on the Theoretical Safety Evaluation Letter from Chairman Seaborg to Senator Aiken as printed in the Non- List of signatures and ratifications to the Nonproliferation Treaty as of "Peaceful Nuclear Explosions," extract from memorandum from Secretary 142 18 1 141 138 140 146 2 Press release announcing tentative dates for hearings on Plowshare services legislation-- Procedures the IAEA might employ in connection with the use of nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes--. 159 Statement from a press conference in Vienna, April 16, in which the U.S.S.R. pledged to make nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes available to third countries which asked for them. 158 Wyoming Atomic Stimulation Project, Robert McDonald, project manager 208 Supplement to testimony of Sam Smith, director, exploration, El Paso 234 CORRESPONDENCE INSERTED IN THE RECORD Aiken, Senator George D., to Congressman Chet Holifield, dated July 25, 1969, concerning certain provisions of S. 1885, the so-called commercial Plowshare bill___ Bauser, Edward J., executive director, JCAE, to G. Edwin Brown, Jr., administrative projects manager, Atomic Industrial Forum, dated August 14, 1969, concerning waiver of defenses under Price-Anderson indemnification and whether there is need to amend the definition of the term "extraordinary nuclear occurrence" as it now appears in the Atomic Energy Act__ Bauser, Edward J., executive director, JCAE, to Joseph Marrone, general Bauser, Edward J., executive director, JCAE to Joseph Marrone, dated 236 175 173 174 236 237 121 |