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1. (UESTION: Mr. Premident, vo've heerd a lot recently about the posai-
bility of dieging a 303-level esnal with nucloar explosives.
Nould you tell us the administration's position on this?
ANSVER: Ve ere interested in studying the sea-level canal posei-
bilities. We need additionel information to evaluate the need
for a new conal, the benefits from it and the cost of building
it. Thege stuites vill include on appreisal of the nuclear
construction, which sppears very promising.
2.
QUESTION: Mx. President, ve have sean som accounts which indicate
that it vould tske the United States ten or more yeara to develop
the cepability to dig a ses-level eanal by nuclear asthods while
other accounts indicate caly five yeers vould be needed. Can you
clarify this for us?
ANSWER: There are severel technical progrema which require
further development to schieve this cepability. The AEC estimetes
that esch of these vould trke sbout five years; however, they
could all be donc concurrently. Thia is based on technical
considerations alons. Other considerations such as budgatary
limitations and urgency of need for R canal could alter the tims
scale. Actual ecnstruction of such a canal vould take three to ten
edditionsl years, depending on the route selected and conditions
prevailing at the time.
3. QUESTION: Mr. Prosident, doesn't the test-ban treaty probibit the une
of nuclear explosives in projects such as the ses-level canal?
As Dr. Secborg and others have testified, a now trans-
isthmian canal probably could not be dug vith nuclear explsives
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