Towards the end of the piece, Wohlstetter asks, “How then should governments react to the spectre of nuclear terrorism?” (Wohlstetter, p. 103). What we cannot tell from Wohlstetter’s paper is how governments actually did react to this prospect. A primary source which reveals part of the response by the United States government is a memo sent on November 18, 1974 from Major General Ernest Graves, the Assistant General Manager for Military Applications at the Atomic Energy Commission, to M.E. Gates, the Manager of the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada office. It assigned the Nevada office responsibility for nuclear bomb search and detection operations and for responding to nuclear terrorism threats. It also defined specific ways in which Gates