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Early last week U.S. newspapers blossomed with cheery stories that the Soviet Union had suddenly capitulated on the big point the U.S. and Britain had been demanding from the outset, had agreed that any ban on nuclear testing must be linked to a control system. As Western spokesmen passed word that "the more realistic" approach of the Soviets had brought the conference closer to success, U.S. Delegate James T. Wadsworth tabled a draft first article "inseparably" linking the ban with the projected control organization. At week's end the conference announced that it had reached agreement on a first...
...prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement at Geneva become progressively brighter (and sporadically dimmer), it seems apparent that Western negotiators, hastening to score a propaganda victory and, possibly, contribute to a healthier world, have overlooked a vital point in the mechanics of a moratorium. Under the partial draft treaty, as it now reads, all testing will stop, even those explosions which may be necessary for the continuation of experiments in the peaceful application of atomic energy...
Such a restrictive treaty could well be as damaging as no treaty at all. If scientists are forced to give up all hopes of testing theories on the constructive use of the atom, atomic research will lose many of its most devoted and imaginative workers. Even if the ban is legally only a temporary one, there will be a strong moral commitment implicit in it, which may make it difficult ever to resume tests. Considering the possible finality of the agreement they are undertaking, the men at Geneva should introduce flexible provisions governing peaceful experimentation under an international agency...
While the U.S. is trying to work out with Soviet negotiators at Geneva a nuclear test ban with a foulproof inspection system, are the Russians going ahead with tests of various kinds and sizes to see how much test-ban evasion they could get away with...
Fact No. 1: A few days after the Geneva test-ban conference started, the U.S. detected and announced two "low yield" Russian explosions at a new test location deep in southern Russia-although the U.S. had suspended its own nuclear tests for a one-year trial period on condition that the Soviet Union do the same (TIME...