Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-300-006
This folder contains telegrams, memoranda, press releases, statements, and a briefing paper concerning atmospheric, underground, and underwater nuclear weapons testing; updates on a disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland; the Johnston Island and Christmas Island test areas; financing the nuclear test program; and radioactive Iodine from nuclear fallout. Also included in this folder is a report by the Federal Radiation Council entitled, “Health Implications of Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Testing,” and a report by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service entitled, “Foreign Radio and Press Reaction to U.S. High-Altitude Nuclear Testing.