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...rupture of the three-year moratorium on nuclear testing, Nikita Khrushchev had forced the U.S.-and the whole free world-to cope with a Pandora's box of questions. What military advance had the Russians achieved by their tests? What could the U.S. hope to gain by resumed atmospheric testing, and how far should it go? Had world reaction to the Russian tests permanently shifted any allegiances? How great is the danger of fallout from testing...
...hard-thinking realists have not forgotten the lessons of history. Senator Dodd of Connecticut observed after the Soviet resumption of testing that the action proved the utter fatuity of the American moratorium. Moreover, it confirmed that Russia had been conducting tests underground all along. Although Mr. Rockefeller has not attained an equal mastery of the logic of Realpolitik, he is surely nobody's fool...
Some of the dangers: "Since the voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing in 1958, we have stood relatively still in the development and improvement of nuclear weapons; we simply do not know the extent of the technical advances scored by the Soviet Union throughout the moratorium and in their current tests in the atmosphere; yet the very undertaking of these tests defied not only world opinion, but also all the years of Soviet propaganda invested in the pretense of seeking a ban on nuclear testing. So defiant a stroke must have been well worth it-in terms of raw military power...
Ever since Russia resumed nuclear testing, both U.S. and European airplanes, particularly high-flying jetliners, have been bringing home unwanted cargoes of radioactivity. Such hot cargo was a recognized problem in the late 19505, but during the nuclear-test moratorium that began in 1958, the radiation level of the high atmosphere gradually decreased, and most airlines stowed their Geiger counters in mothballs. Recent Soviet tests have started the trouble all over again, and this time it is expected to grow worse and last longer. Jetliners of the 19605 fly well up in the stratosphere, where radioactive fission products linger...
...range of governmental experience, he is respected on Capitol Hill as well as throughout the executive departments. As a politically active Republican (who was a top possibility for Secretary of Defense had Nixon won), McCone should be virtually immune from partisan political criticism. Just after the Russians broke the moratorium on atomic testing last month, Kennedy summoned McCone from California to Washington for consultation; to receive the President's telephone call, McCone left a golf course where he was playing with Nixon...