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August 24, 1960

Memorandum of Conversation, 'Nuclear Sharing'

Secretary of Defense Gates, Acting-Secretary of State Dillon and the Atomic Energy Commissions' McCone discuss nuclear sharing with France. The French had offered full cooperation and participation in NATO in return for US Polaris submarine-launched missiles (without warhead).

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National Archives, Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State, Records of Policy Planning Staff, 1957-1961, box 116, Atomic Energy – Armaments 1960. Obtained and contributed by William Burr and included in NPIHP Research Update #2.

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2011-11-20

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