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President Kennedy's speech ordering a resumption of atmospheric nuclear testing unless the present Geneva negotiations produce a test-ban treaty was delivered in a tone of artificial hopefulness and candor. He raised conditions that seem to undercut the possibilities of a workable agreement by insisting on an enforceable...
...nuclear test ban treaty which the U.S. and the United Kingdom will soon propose should be designed to ensure compliance, and thus should work toward minimal agreements which can be honored without violating any nation's commitment to its own security. A token agreement would reduce the test-ban issue to proper proportion. But above all, it must work. And it should start from certain premises...
Inspection and enforcement are not synonyms. No matter how intricate a network the West demands, inspection cannot enforce a test-ban treaty by punishing violations. As soon as the Soviet Union violates an agreement, we would have to restore our ability to test, why then, should we dismantle at the outset the best means of enforcing compliance...
...Atom Testing: Almost since the moment that the first atomic bomb burst upon Hiroshima, the free world and the Communists have been talking-and disagreeing-about control of nuclear weaponry. In October 1958 the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain began test-ban talks in Geneva. The conference finally broke up, after 353 sessions, without the slightest sign of substantive agreement. The U.S. and Britain have insisted on control by inspection; Russia has not been willing to allow meaningful inspection...
Even if the U.S. and Russia were able to arrive at some sort of test-ban treaty, it would be worth less than its weight in paper if it did not include other nations-as, for a prime example, Red China. Asked about this problem at last week's press conference, President Kennedy replied: "It is a question which waits for us before the end of the road is reached, and it would be a very difficult one." Summitry: Inevitably, the talk about possible breakthroughs led toward proposals for person-to-person conversations at the summit. Nikita Khrushchev...