Arms Control and Disarmament


122. Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the United Nations

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/1-1862. Top Secret; Niact; Verbatim Text.


123. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Tests, 1/16-22/62. Top Secret.


125. Memorandum From the Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Fisher) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/1-3162. Top Secret.


127. Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/2-262. Secret. Repeated to Bonn, Brussels, London, and Moscow.


128. Memorandum From the Deputy Secretary of Defense (Gilpatric) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Tests, 497th NSC Meeting. Secret; Restricted Data.


130. Memorandum From the Permanent Representative to the United Nations (Stevenson) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Tests 2/17/62-4/4/62. Confidential.


131. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Tests 2/17/62-4/4/62. Secret. Attached to a February 21 memorandum from Battle to McGeorge Bundy stating that the memorandum had been approved at a meeting in the Secretary’s office on February 20.


132. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between President Kennedy and the Under Secretary of State (Ball)

Source: Kennedy Library, Ball Papers, Telephone Conversations, Disarmament. No classification marking.


133. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 65 D 330. Official Use Only. Drafted by Guthrie and approved in U on February 23.


134. Letter From the British Ambassador (Ormsby Gore) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Tests 2/17/62-4/4/62. Top Secret; Limit Distribution.


135. Memorandum for the Record

Source: National Defense University, Taylor Papers, Daily Staff Meetings Jan-Apr 62. Secret. Drafted by Legere. These memoranda for the record were routinely circulated to Taylor and members of his staff.


136. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Tests 2/17/62-4/4/62. Top Secret.


137. Memorandum of the 497th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, NSC Meetings 1962. Top Secret. Drafted by McGeorge Bundy. A complete list of the 22 attendees is ibid., President’s Appointment Book. Other accounts of the meeting are in Seaborg, Journal, vol. 3, pp. 225-227, and in a memorandum for the files by McCone in Central Intelligence Agency, Meetings with President, 12/1/61-6/30/61.


138. Letter From President Kennedy to Prime Minister Macmillan

Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, Kennedy-Macmillan 1960-1962. Top Secret. Attached to a note from McGeorge Bundy to Rusk, stating that the original had been delivered to Ormsby Gore.


139. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kaysen) to President Kennedy

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Departments and Agencies Series, ACDA, Eighteen Nation 1/62-2/62. Secret.


140. Memorandum for the Record

Source: National Defense University, Taylor Papers, Daily Staff Meetings Jan-Apr 62. Secret. Drafted by Ewell. Bundy presided at the meeting.


141. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/3-162. Secret. Drafted by Spiers and approved in S on March 3. Other accounts of this meeting are in Seaborg, Journal, vol. 3, and in a memorandum for the record by Kaysen, March 1, in the Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Kaysen Series, Disarmament, Basic Memoranda 2/62-4/62.


142. Letter From the Minister of the British Embassy (Hood) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 69 D 121, Atomic Energy-Armaments, 62. Secret. Attached to the source text is a March 2 note from Battle (S/S) to Halla (ACDA) asking Halla to take “appropriate action” on the letter.


145. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/3-662. Confidential. Drafted by Goodby.


146. Memorandum for the Record

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Departments and Agencies Series, ACDA, Disarmament, 18-Nation Committee, Geneva, 3-62. No classification marking. The source text, dated March 7, bears no drafting information.


147. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/3-862. Secret. Drafted by Spiers.


148. Minutes of Meeting

Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Kaysen Series, Disarmament, Basic Memoranda, 2/62-4/62. Secret. The source text, which is dated March 12, bears no drafting information. An attached list of participants is not printed.


149. Telegram From the Department of State to Secretary of State Rusk, in Geneva

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/3-1062. Secret; Niact. Drafted and approved by Andre J. Navez (S/S). Secretary Rusk was in Geneva March 10-27 to head the U.S. Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee.


150. Telegram From the Delegation to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/3-1262. Secret; Priority. Repeated to London.