<--PREV Doc #1939  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1941 Document #1940; August 6, 1956 Diary Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part X: Cracks in the Alliance; May 1956 to September 1956 Chapter 21: "Grave difficulties in the Suez crisis"   Today I signed a letter directing Admiral Strauss as to the estimated amounts of fissionable material to be produced in '57.1 The letter was of six pages. I initialled each one and signed the last one. It was reported to me orally the number of weapons of various sizes we now have in our possession. 1 We were unable to find this document in AWF. The Eisenhower Administration had greatly increased the production of fissionable material; see Eisenhower to Anderson, June 13, 1956, WHCF/OF 108; and Hewlett and Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, pp. 159-63, 166-68, 580. Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Diary, 6 August 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 1940. World Wide Web facsimile by The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission of the print edition; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1940.cfm <--PREV Doc #1939  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #1941

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