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DISARMAMENT: "A détente can only come with disarmament. It should focus on the reciprocal control of missiles and strategic aircraft and the ships that carry nuclear arms." (Notably omitted: any support for the U.S.-British hope of a nuclear test-ban agreement...
...beetle-browed Secretary put aside his crutches (arthritis), leaned against the edge of a stool and faced 50 newsmen. In a precisely timed half-hour, they asked 39 questions ranging across U.S. policy from the Communist threat in Cuba (see HEMISPHERE) to highly technical details of East-West nuclear test-ban negotiations in Geneva, to the likely impact of U.S. weather satellite Tiros 1 on the legal status of outer space. To each question, Herter replied in measured, carefully framed sentences, without benefit of prepared statement...
...Administration's remaining nine months, Herter hopes to lessen "the dangers of the Frankenstein monsters we have created in the war machines of the world," with the first shackle on the nuclear monster possibly a test-ban treaty. But last week Chris Herter characteristically promised no international Utopia in his speech to the National Association of Broad casters in Chicago. "We can hardly move forward confidently in negotiating new arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union if our existing agreements with them about Berlin are meanwhile being violated," said he. "If anyone looks for dramatic achievements at the summit...
...shift from reliance on mass-destruction H-bombs to reliance on tactical nuclear weapons. A test ban, he says, would stop development of such tactical nuclear weapons. Many earnest men who might otherwise be willing to go along with a test ban are haunted by the possibility that the U.S.S.R. would find ways to evade the ban and develop nuclear weapons superior to the U.S.'s. To guard against this possibility, the U.S. has insisted from the outset that any nuclear test-ban agreement must include an adequate system of detection and control...
...Russia entered into a test-ban agreement, would she be able to carry out clandestine tests...