February 1962


79. Minutes of White House Meeting, February 2

Status of U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests. Top Secret. 11 pp. Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Testing, 497th NSC Meeting, Keeny Report.


80. Memorandum from Gen. Lemnitzer to President Kennedy, February 16

JCS views on resumption of nuclear testing. Top Secret. 7 pp. Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Testing, 497th NSC Meeting.


81. Memorandum from Bundy to President Kennedy, February 19

Background information for meeting with Gaitskell. Secret. 9 pp. Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subject Series, Nuclear Weapons Testing, 2/17/62–4/4/62.


82. Memorandum from Wiesner to President Kennedy, February 21

Plan for new disarmament initiative. Attachment outlines proposal. Secret. 7 pp. Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Nuclear Weapons Testing, 2/17/62–4/4/62.


83. Letter from Amb. Ormsby Gore to Rusk, February 24

Conveys text of message from Prime Minister Macmillan to President Kennedy regarding Khrushchev’s latest letter on disarmament. Secret. 4 pp. Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, MacmillanKennedy.


84. Memorandum for the Record, February 27

Status of interest on testing, March shot, and U.S.S.R. acceptance of test ban treaty by NSC meeting participants. Secret. 1 p. National Defense University, Taylor Papers.


85. Letter from Amb. Ormsby Gore to Rusk, February 28

Encloses copy of Prime Minister Macmillan’s February 28 letter to President Kennedy on nuclear testing. Top Secret. 8 pp. Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, MacmillanKennedy.


86. Telegram 4608 to London, February 28

Conveys President’s letter to Prime Minister Macmillan on resumption of nuclear testing. Secret. 3 pp. Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/2–2862.