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CONFIDENTIAL
many persons into the belief that the suspension of tests of nuclear
weapons will remove the threat to world peace.
This is a dangerous
fallacy because the hazard to civilization is not the testing of weapons;
President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom take this means of restating the position which they announced
They do this in the light of the
failure of the disarmament conversations in London and of other events
which have occurred since the date of the Bermuda Communiqué.
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Our two Governments continue to believe that the security of
the free world depends to a marked degree upon the nuclear
deterrent,
To maintain this deterrent effectively, weapons
must be phased with the systems developed for their delivery
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and as these systems improve and change continued nuclear
testing is inescapable,
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in Bermuda on March24 of this year.
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With the purpose of making their position as plain as possible, the
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is the sword which hangs over the peace of the world,
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the continued manufacture and build up of weapon types already in being