There seems te be no possibility to atop the arrival of an intercontinental
missile, except by the employment of a defensive missile bearing a emall
hydrogen bomb te destroy it far fram its intended target.
Thus the H-bemb
development going on is for the purpose of protection of cur own cities
rather than for the purpose of increasing the destruction we can visit upon a
potential enemy.
My question is simply this: Without knowing -- I repeat,
without knowing that the Comrmniets will, with us, stop the development of
H-bombs, are we to allow our security tea be besed wholly on wishful thinking,
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Another fact to be pointed out is that, without inspection, Soviet
development work on the H-bomb could not be detected until bombs were
actually tested.
Yet such tests are always, and necessarily, proceeded by
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many months of preparatory work. Consequently if we, acting in good faith,
atop all this work, we could, without warning, suddenly be confronted with a
type of attack for which we would be, through our own neglect, woefully
unprepared,
The final fact ie that the mass of our best scientific conclusion holde
that testing on the scale so far carried out by the Soviets and this nation has