<--PREV Doc #2108  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2110 Document #2109; November 21, 1956 Diary Series: EM, AWF, DDE Diaries Series ; Category: Top secret The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Volume XVII - The Presidency: The Middle Way Part XI: The free world's "sad mess"; October 1956 to January 1957 Chapter 22: On Suez "we do not see eye to eye"   I approved today the Joint Chief of Staff's plan for the disposal to bases, fields and ships afloat all the present atomic stock pile, nuclear and fission.1 I informed the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff that (a) the State Department should be in agreement with all disposal involving overseas bases, and (b) today's dispersal should mark the approximate number of those to be maintained permanently in the field. The bulk of those manufactured hereafter (except for air defense types) should be kept in United States reserve stocks. 1 Colonel Goodpaster noted that the President had approved the JCS plan after he read and discussed a JCS memo that stressed "the desirability of having a considerable number of weapons in `safe reserve'" (Goodpaster, Memorandum of Conference, Nov. 21, 1956, AWF/D. See also State, Foreign Relations, 1955-1957, vol. XIX, National Security Policy, p. 376). Bibliographic reference to this document: Eisenhower, Dwight D. Top secret Diary, 21 November 1956. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. L. Galambos and D. van Ee, doc. 2109. 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/2109.cfm <--PREV Doc #2108  |  Memorial Commission Home Page  |  First Term Table of Contents  |  Presidential Papers Home Page  |  Doc#  |  NEXT--> Doc #2110

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