Word: khrushchevism
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...JUNE 1961-Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna, get nowhere...
...JUNE 1963-In a series of secret communications, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree to hold high-level test ban negotiations in Moscow...
...AUGUST 1958-After a series of letters between Bulganin, Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Russia, Britain and the U.S. agree to begin negotiations for the suspension of nuclear tests...
Finally the principals sat down at the conference table, accompanied by their top aides-Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, and Chief Disarmament Negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin on the Russian side, U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and British Ambassador Sir Humphrey Trevelyan for the West. Said Khrushchev: "We begin immediately with the signing." Added Gromyko: "Then all that will remain will be to fill the treaty...
During the early sessions, it almost seemed that easy. Khrushchev said that, since it had been impossible to 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...