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52, At the Foreign Ministers' Confernece at Geneva on November 10,
Mr. Molotov indicated willingness of the Soviet Union to consider the
concept of aerial photography as one of the forms of control to be considered "at the concluding stage of the implementation of measures to
reduce armaments and to prohibit atomic weapons. "'
53,
Cn November 11, 1955, at the Geneva Foreign Ministers’ Conference,
54,
Cn November 29, 1955, Secretary Dulles stated at a press conference
Secretary Dulles stated that if agreement can be reached to eliminate or
limit nuclear weapons under proper safeguards, the United States would be
prepared to agree to corresponding restrictions on the testing of such
weapons,"
that the question of suspension of nuclear testing had been studied fora
great many months, and that no formula had been found which would be
both dependable and in the interest of the U. S, with regard to the protection of people and freedom in the world.
55. The United Nations General Assernbly on December 16, 1955, adopted
by a vote of 56-7, against Soviet opposition, a resolution cosponsored by
the United States which urged that the subcommittee of the Disarmament
Commission give priority to {a} such confidence building measures as the
Fresident's open skies plan and the Bulganin ground inspection plan, and
(b) all such measures of adequately safeguarded disarmament as are now
feasible.
56.
Marshal Bulganin, in a letter to President Eisenhower on February 1,
1956, again declined to enter into aerial inspection system.
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57, On December 24, 1955, Pope Fius XII in a Christmas broadcast:®
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declared that the three steps of "renunciation of experimentation withi.
atomic weapons, renunciation of the use of such, and general control of-.2-armaments" must be effected together,
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58, Cn January 25, 1956, Governor Stassen testifying before the U. S,
Senate Disarmament Subcommittee reiterated U. S. policy and pointed
out that we do not have the technical facilities to detect all test explosions.
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59, On February 14, 1956, Khrushchev before the 20th CPSU Congress in
Moscowstated ''we are willing to take certain partial steps ~- for example
to discontinue the thermonuclear weapon tests..."
60.
Ina letter to Premier Bulganin of March 1,
1956, President Eisenhower
answered questions regarding the ''open skies'' proposal, and added a proposal for efforts to bring under control the nuclear threat and reverse the
trend toward a constant increasing of nuclear weapons hanging over the
world. He stated the United States would be prepared to work out, with
other nations, suitable and safeguarded arrangements so that future
production of fissionable materials anywhere in the world would no longer
be used to increase the stockpiles of explosive weapons. The President
suggested that this might be combined with his proposal of December 8,
1953 "to begin now and continue to make joint contributions" from existing
stockpiles of normal uranium of fissionable materials to an international
atomic agency, The Fresident stated that the ultimate hope of this
government is that all production of fissionable materials anywhere in the
world will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes,
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