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Only a few minutes before, Rusk, Lord Home and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had signed the 800-word treaty that banned nuclear tests in space, in the atmosphere and under water. When it came time for speeches, Gromyko called it "a success of the peaceful policy of the Soviet Union, a success of all the states advocating the aversion of the danger of a new war." Lord Home orated emotionally, saying the treaty meant that "every human family can live, from now on, free from fear that their unborn children will be affected by man-made poison...
Promising as the pact was, there were questions about what other "sprouts" the nuclear test thaw might produce. To get an idea of what the Soviets had in mind, Dean Rusk stayed in Russia for four days after the treaty was signed, met several times with Gromyko. The Secretary of State wound up the week with a shirt-sleeve conference and a badminton game with Khrushchev (in which the roly-poly Russian easily bested the man from the New Frontier) at the Premier's vacation villa on the Black Sea. There appeared to be two areas in which Russia...
...rock-ets. Arriving in Moscow (his first visit), Dean Rusk struck a neorealistic note: "This test ban is an important event. It could become a historic event. That depends upon what follows." Then he settled down with Britain's Lord Home and Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for a series of conferences to see where, after the opening sequence of the test ban, the new Moscow script might lead...
Around a green baize table sat U.S. Secretary for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman, British Science Minister Lord Hailsham and Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At each man's elbow was a copy of the agreement, bound in red leather, initialed a few minutes earlier...
...reach agreement on a full ban in the past, the time had come to achieve more by attempting less. He gave Soviet approval to a limited ban which would cover all tests except those underground, repeating his familiar opposition to onsite inspections of possible underground blasts. As usual, Gromyko argued that such inspections were unnecessary anyway, in view of long-range seismic detection devices. When the sudden crash of an accidentally overturned chair startled the delegates, Gromyko said quickly: "This is confirmation that everyone detects it." Growled Hailsham: "It still needs inspection...