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...dashed against inflexible Soviet demands. President Eisenhower's cardinal rule is that a ban on tests is no ban at all unless it is policed by an inspection system. Yet the Russians are unwilling to give the necessary guarantees, insist on a simple, all-or-nothing moratorium without adequate enforcement. The boss of the control post in Russia must be a Russian; the commission may investigate only a small number of suspicious seismographic disturbances in any one year...
Though the temporary moratorium on nuclear tests ended Dec. 31, President Eisenhower has made no decision on whether to resume the shots. The temptation is to wait for the summit meetings in May, just as the U.S. waited hopefully for Khrushchev's assurances on nuclear testing at Camp David last summer. But against a backdrop of 15 months of frustration, the great hopes of Geneva are fading fast. The danger is that the real Soviet objective at Geneva is to halt U.S. weapons progress, while giving nothing in return, thus in effect disarming the U.S. by talk. And that...
...Just before the Soviet-U.S. nuclear-test moratorium expired, the U.S. announced that it would: a) Resume testing...
...Continue the moratorium one year...
...shall not resume it without announcing our intention in advance. During this period . . . the U.S. will continue in its active program of weapons-research development and laboratory-type experimentation." Peril on Path? Thus last week the President resolved the tricky problem of what to do when the test moratorium ran out with the old year. But he postponed into 1960 his decision on what the basic trend of U.S. nuclear policy ought to be -and on this broader decision his advisers were still divided. On the one hand, the Pentagon's civilian and military leaders, AEC Chairman McCone...