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...Russia insist that the treaty would not restrict the peaceful development of atomic energy and that they would share any peaceful scientific fallout from their nuclear-weaponry programs. As with the Partial Test-Ban Treaty, France and Red China are not expected to sign the non-proliferation treaty. The Americans and Russians hope that they will be able to persuade the have-nots to put aside their hesitations and go along with the treaty, but expect that the job of persuasion will take at least to fall, when they hope that the United Nations will take up the question...
...themselves are still unsure of their common identity. They made headlines when they pressed for a revolution in sexual mores in 1963, substituting ethical standards based on individual situations for the old blanket moral standards. At the same time they began to call for nuclear disarmament, although the Geneva Test-Ban Treaty alone was sufficient disperse the movement...
...Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor by his outspoken advocacy of the nuclear test-ban treaty, trekking to Capitol Hill to rebut point by point the doubts expressed by the Air Force's LeMay. A longtime protege of General Maxwell Taylor's, Wheeler succeeded Taylor as J.C.S. Chairman...
...there was outspoken Pentagon support for the nuclear test-ban treaty, despite the fact that the U.S. had no well-tested anti-ballistic missile. This year everyone has ducked the problem, and there are no substantial funds included in the budget for producing the Nike-X, which cannot be definitively tested without atmospheric nuclear explosions...
...decor has changed, so has the mood. As the 19th General Assembly prepared to open this week, the euphoria flowing from last year's partial nuclear test-ban treaty was largely gone...