305. Editorial Note

Following a visit from Admiral Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, on October 9, British Prime Minister Macmillan wrote to Secretary Dulles and President Eisenhower on October 10. A copy of his letter to Dulles is in Department of State, Atomic Energy Files: Lot 57 D 688, Weapons—Test Limitations. His letter to Eisenhower is scheduled for publication in volume XXVII.

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Macmillan discussed his motivations for writing the letters and quoted from both of them in his memoirs. See Riding the Storm, 1956–1959, page 315.