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...decision was a logical outgrowth of the East-West negotiations on banning nuclear tests. With U.S. experts disagreeing among themselves about detection of underground nuclear tests, the U.S. had repeatedly made clear that 1) it could not enter into an agreement to ban underground tests without further research on methods of detection, and 2) this research, to be reliable, would have to include actual nuclear explosions, not just conventional explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Peaceable Explosions | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...EAST-WEST RELATIONS: "If we make some progress in this matter, the atmosphere can change, at least a little. Solutions to problems that look impossible today may become possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Symb< >ol of Pride | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

FOREIGN AID: The world's "fundamental and great problem'' is "to bring two billion men out of poverty and in the direction of economic progress.'' and the best way to get on with the job is a joint East-West cooperative program (a program that has no U.S. support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Symb< >ol of Pride | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

Something New Added. Facing the first East-West summit conference since the Eisenhower-Eden-Faure-Bulganin meeting in Geneva in July 1955, the West showed a prevailing mood of optimism. It sprang in part from the human tendency of statesmen to congratulate themselves on the mere absence of crisis; in part from the West's prosperity, with its assurance that, economically, Western democracy was outperforming Communism; and in part from the fact that at present the world's great issues are dormant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Mood of the West | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Western statesmen expect no dramatic agreements, but never during the cold war has the West, in moments of realism, expected any sweeping settlement of East-West conflicts. The hope underlying U.S. policy has been that if negotiation could keep resolving crises without war, internal changes within Russia would gradually transform it into a less monolithic society, ruled by a less hostile government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Mood of the West | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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