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...news from the disarmament talks in London? "Of course, I'm not there," said Ike, but Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen, attending London meetings, had indicated that "we are now engaged in the most serious talks on disarmament . . . since World War II." This brought on a query on armament: Since the U.S. has agreed to arm Britain with guided missiles without atomic warheads, does the U.S. plan similarly to place guided-missile sites "all around the Soviet Union?" Said Ike: "Well, I wouldn't comment on the general policy. I will merely say this: we have no such...
...possible thereafter upon the ratification of the necessary agreements; and 2) thereafter divert all such nuclear production to peaceful purposes. Net effect of the plan: while allowing the big powers to hang on to nuclear weapons stockpiled before the cut-off date, it would "reverse the trend" of nuclear armament and pave the way for transfers of existing stockpiles to non-military...
...pronouncement of eighteen top West German physicists against participation in their country's nuclear armament, some old bugbears have returned to haunt the very NATO powers who created them. Germany's post-war indoctrination against militarism, this time coupled with radioactive fall-out fears, have prompted the most effective political protests by scientists in a long time...
...eventually forced to drop its ruling against sharing atomic warheads. NATO's ground force is rapidly losing its power to unify individual nations, and such a spirit of overseas cooperation might be good. In any case, scientists and politicians alike must realize that a new age of nuclear armament has dawned--there are no easy answers on either side...
...total free world, we might have a peculiar form of isolationism: each nation crouched behind--not geographic--but nuclear boundaries and refusing the less destructive but more practical use of conventional forces. Britain has a very real faith in the power of nuclear deterrents, yet the road of preventive armament is a very narrow and dangerous one, and one which history proves more often wrong than right...