PLANS AND PLANNERS 



partment went on record in favor of the proposition, 

 and, on March 14, President Truman approved the 

 plan. 



The Secretary of State accordingly asked our am- 

 bassadors in the eleven foreign countries having mem- 

 bership in the United Nations Atomic Energy Com- 

 mission to invite those countries to choose their official 

 witnesses. The countries and their representatives are 

 listed in Appendix 6. 



The twenty-one global representatives selected as- 

 sembled in Washington, D. C, and went b}^ special 

 train to Oakland, California. There they boarded the 

 PANAMINT, Bikini bound. 



Besides these foreign observers and a few partici- 

 pating scientists from Great Britain, there were eight 

 additional observers from Great Britain, four from 

 Canada, and one from Australia. There were also a 

 few press representatives invited from foreign coun- 

 tries. 



But Colonel H. B. Smith, Head of the Nonpartici- 

 pating Observers Section, had many other observers 

 to shepherd also. There were fourteen Congressional 

 observers (see Appendix 7), eighty-seven Army and 

 Navy observers, and twenty-two civilian scientist ob- 

 servers. Congressional observers were considerably 

 fewer than expected. The Joint Chiefs of Staff orig- 

 inally set a quota of sixty but the invitations were not 

 issued until late — after June 14, 1946, when Congress 

 gave final approval to the Tests. 



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