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...convinced that the Sahara bomb is a crude device and that the French are still a long way from packaging a bomb small enough to be carried by missiles-which France also lacks. But French nuclear persistence has a nuisance value. Clearly, France belongs in the Geneva atomic test-ban talks scheduled for Feb. 7. But as a negotiator, Charles de Gaulle may well be almost as difficult as the Russians...
...conclusion, Tocsin presented a three-point plan toward a nuclear test ban, urging the U.S. to continue its moritorium on tests "as long as there exist reasonable prospects of a satisfactory agreement," and to invite other parties in test-ban negotiations to participate in Project Vela, a U.S. research project on test inspection systems
...bomb as the H-bomb was from the Hiroshima-type A-bomb," warned Thomas E. Murray, former member of the Atomic Energy Commission and consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, last week. The Administration's moratorium on nuclear testing, drawn out to two years by the foot-dragging test-ban talks with the Russians at Geneva, has stopped U.S. progress cold-but "I take it for granted that the Soviet Union is actively developing nuclear technology along this revolutionary line...
...Nuclear Tests: The Geneva test-ban conference has been "very disappointing.'' If the talks make no progress, "then we have to take care of ourselves," meaning that the U.S. might resume underground nuclear tests...
...past two years, hefty James Wadsworth (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) has been the U.S.'s amiable, patient No. 1 negotiator in the dragged-out test-ban negotiations with Russia. Men in the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission who are dubious of the possibility or the value of such an agreement have sometimes carped at Wadsworth for working too hard at it. But such carpings are not likely to interfere with Wadsworth's Senate confirmation as U.N. delegate. Republicans are eager to have him take over at the U.N. so that Lodge...