Recognizing that such use could have widespread, long-lasting and 
severe effects harmful to human welfare; 
Recognizing also that proper utilization of scientific and technical 
advances could improve the interrelationships of man and nature: 
1. Advocate the most effective measures possible to overcome the 
dangers of the use of environmental modification techniques for 
military purposes. 
2. Have decided to hold a meeting of United States and Soviet 
representatives this year for the purpose of exploring this problem. 
3. Have decided to discuss also what steps might be taken to 
bring about the measures referred to in Paragraph 1. 
Further international moves in the field of weather modifica- 
tion have been urged by the United States Government. At the 
recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Mete- 
orological Organization, further decisions have been taken to 
strengthen the activities of that international group in the field 
of weather modification so that advice and technical assistance 
can be given to developing countries in circumstances where 
weather modification activities might help alleviate some of their 
agricultural or water resource problems. 
CAPITAL STRUCTURE FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC 
AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH 
As the committee notes, studies are now under way at the 
Center for Naval Analyses of the capital structure for oceano- 
graphic and atmospheric research. These studies have been spon- 
sored and funded by the Interagency Committee for Marine 
Science and Engineering and by the Interagency Committee for 
Atmospheric Sciences. The resources necessary for the prosecu- 
tion of these studies have been provided, and it is expected that 
during the course of the next year the results of these studies 
can form a firm base for further decision on the national needs 
for capital equipment to support its oceanographic and atmos- 
pheric research programs. 
OCEAN ENGINEERING STUDY 
I am pleased that the committee has established a panel now 
looking into the questions of national needs in the field of ocean 
engineering. I look forward with great interest to the results of 
this study when it is completed. 
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