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Hardly had he taken office than the Soviet Union broke the three-year moratorium that had existed on atmospheric testing. Kennedy reluctantly ordered new U.S. tests in September 1961. Said he: "We have no other choice in fulfillment of the responsibilities of the U.S. to its own citizens and to the security of other free nations." But he hated to do it, and once confided to a close friend: "It really doesn't matter as far as you and I are concerned. What really matters is all the children." He worked constantly and with dedication to bring about...
...speed of the action, which quickly followed President Pusey's announcement in April that the three year moratorium on the subject had ended, indicates that the Deans had few doubts about the plan. They have said their own certainty is strongly bolstered by the unanimous support of the Masters for the new standard rent. Such assurance, however, does not excuse omitting students from this discussion, and some serious questions about the philosophy and application of the system stand unanswered...
...nation, many citizens in and out of government shared Aiken's wariness toward the test ban treaty. Before boarding the Queen Elizabeth for a "nostalgic" trip to England and the Normandy beaches, former President Eisenhower counseled caution, pointed out that after atmospheric tests were halted in the 1958 moratorium, it was the Russians who first resumed testing. Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper wanted to know why, after the Russians had rejected a test ban treaty for five years, "suddenly there is a clear sky, the treaty is wrapped up in a week in a sudden and complete...
Cheating. Any agreement with the Soviets assumes inherent risks. Moscow could secretly prepare a massive series of atmospheric tests while the U.S. is lulled into the illusion of security (which is just about what happened when the Kremlin broke a three-year moratorium on testing in September 1961). With or without formally disavowing the treaty under some pretext, the Russians could then touch off a series of explosions that might swing the nuclear balance in their favor. Even without such clandestine preparations, the Kremlin could carry out tests in outer space behind the sun or the moon, under the polar...
...MARCH 1960-Russia calls for a voluntary moratorium of all major tests. West refuses without adequate detection controls...