Word: moratorium
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...appointment with the President. Within three days the U.S.'s self-imposed, 14-month suspension of nuclear tests was due to expire on its deadline of midnight Dec. 31. The urgent question to be decided that morning: Should the U.S., or should it not, renew the nuclear-test moratorium...
...general proposition. They intended to put it to the President that 1) the U.S. ought to continue the 14-month-old talks with Britain and the U.S.S.R. at Geneva on how to inspect and control any permanent test ban; 2) the U.S. should not promise to extend the test moratorium any longer...
Next question: Were Kremlin scientists to be trusted for objective studies on any phase of disarmament? Herter, though an original advocate of the test moratorium, was now convinced that the moratorium was giving a nuclear advantage to the U.S.S.R. with no return...
...meanwhile, the voluntary moratorium on testing will expire...
...detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although the Soviets, to judge from published Russian scientific papers, have the capability for the neutron bomb, the U.S. cannot proceed from theoretical to test stage on the neutron bomb because of the test moratorium...