er wweuuves mm NT PES ray we nM lag ene non ey SeA A ae mA deena A ne bene tga! Rte semen remy o Lindt Aceon wtusy GOGO LC eens CEES CASO,ieee ead 8} one Durden of man-nado radioactivity in the world’s atmoesphore is rolatively wa ~ Lows/reached a peak in 1954 as the fission produsts continued to drift storage" cown out of "tomsorary xoctconovtin the stratosphore following tho 196l-~ . 62 tosts, which had spowod moro radioactivity into tho air than all tho \ provious yoars of testing combined. Most of it--85 of the 101 megatons-= came from the Russians, who broke tho moratorium in 1961. Although wo are mow in Lhe third year of another Russian-United States agreement, ono pro~ » nibiting above-ground tosting, tho need for surveillanca and bottor inFor a long time to come formation about human cffects will, remain with us indcfiniticiy. rox one thing, neither the French nor the Chinese are bound by any ~ ~“ “Lf T e ging t ol mye bE £249 arepressigg suchasIndia endIsrael, countrics, (endothe> mA agreencnt to keep their tests underground,/(is roover, atomic bombs are fute ting choapor yoar by year [aE and with the increase in nucloar power reactors whe piutoniwa needed for their construction will become kore and nore plentiful. As Sonator Robert Kennedy warned in a specch on Juno 23, 1965, soma cighveon nations are in position to develop nucloar weapons within throc years. “There could be no socurity,*® Senator Kennedy said, "when a decision <o usc these weapons might be made by an unstitle demagog or by the head of ono of the innuncrable two-month governments that plague so many coun trios, or uy an irresponsible military commander, or even by an individual pilot." | . our own Thousands of/nuclear weapons are constantly cruising through the skios in military planes; others are afloat in submarines, and still othors aro ammed for action in missile silos. During the past fitteon yoars wo have accicontally dropped ifteen or twenty of our atomic bombs in crashes,