Later Monday, the administrator of a compensation fund outlined a draftprotocol for payments from The One Fund Boston, which was created to help people injured in the twin blasts.
The Non-Aggression Pact and its secret Protocol were signed on 23 August 1939, along the lines of the Soviet-proposed draft and after only a few hours of discussion.
Attempts to draft a second SETI protocol to deal with this foundered several years ago, and the chairman and two members of the IAA's committee resigned.