Test Ban Negotiations and Disarmament: Hearing ... 88-1 ... March 11, 1963

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 50 páginas
 

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Página 29 - Such agreement or agreements shall govern the numbers and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general location, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be provided.
Página 29 - In accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, assistance, and facilities, Including rights of passage, necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security. 2. Such agreement or agreements shall govern the numbers and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general location, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be provided. 3. The agreement or agreements shall be negotiated as soon as possible on the initiative of the Security Council....
Página 29 - Members and shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.
Página 2 - ... record of service to his country, having served as Ambassador to Argentina, to Italy, and to India. We are happy to have you with us, Mr. Ambassador, and you may proceed. STATEMENT OF HON. ELLSWORTH BUNKER, US REPRESENTATIVE TO THE COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES Mr. BUNKER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. I am very glad to have this opportunity to appear, to add what I may to what I understand is a continuing task of examining communism and Communist subversion in Latin...
Página 4 - Defense, believe it doubtful that either side would, through further testing, achieve major advances in any significant area which could be translated into a military advantage without the other side making either a similar or offsetting gain. There is one proposition which we must keep in mind despite confidence and understandable national pride: nature does not yield up its secrets with political favoritism. The list of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences over the past half century shows that major...
Página 29 - That no action shall be taken under this [or any other law] Act that will obligate the United States to disarm or to reduce or to limit the Armed Forces or armaments of the United States...
Página 5 - Among the dangers to the United States from continued testing by both sides I would consider the danger of the further spread of nuclear weapons to other countries of perhaps primary importance. Unlimited testing by both the United States and the Soviet Union would substantially increase the likelihood that more and more nations would seek the dubious, but what some might consider prestigious, distinction of membership in the nuclear club. The risks to the security of the free world from nuclear...
Página 12 - ... them. The Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency will discuss this capability in detail. But I am confident that, if significant testing in violation of the treaty takes place, we will know about it. And we will be ready at all times to resume testing in all environments...
Página 3 - In my judgment, the conclusion of an effective nuclear test ban treaty would have three advantages of primary importance in our relations with the Soviet Union. First, a nuclear test ban treaty would constitute a significant step in the direction of slackening the pace of the arms race. Once this step had been taken with satisfactory results, new opportunities for further steps toward turning the arms race downward might well be more within the realm of reality than at present.
Página 2 - Government has consistently adhered to the view that a safeguarded cessation of nuclear weapons testing would be in our national interest. Periodic policy reviews in the light of shifting patterns of foreign policy, of changes in the negotiating situation, and of technical developments have always produced the same answer: that an effective test ban treaty is in our national interest.

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