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61. On March 21, 1956, the U. S. presented to the Subcommittee
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Disarmament Commission at London a proposal for a demonstr
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test area of open skies inspection in a strip of land 300 miles long
100 miles wide in the USSR and in the U. S.; which wag rejected by the
USSR.
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62. On March 21, 1956 the U. S. proposed to UN Disarmament Commiss
Subcommittee for immediate exchanges for a test period of technical
missions for purposes of preliminary study of the methods of control and
inspection; which was not accepted by the USSR.
63, On March 22, 1956, the U. S, proposed to the UN Subcommittee
that, subject to certain accompanying conditions and safeguards, the
first phase level of reduced armed forces and armaments should be on
a basis of measurement of 2 1/2 million men each for the U, S. and USSR,
750,000 each for the UK and France.
64.
On March 26, 1956, the U. S. proposed to the UN Disarmament
Commission Subcommittee, as part of an air and ground inspection
system, the advance notification of planned movements of armed units
through international air or water or over foreign soil; which was not
accepted by the USSR.
65.
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On March 27, 1956, the USSR proposed at the London meetings of
the UN Disarmament Subcommittee the discontinuance of further teste -¢7p.
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of thermonuclear weapons as a measure independent of attainment of ao
agreement on general disarmament.
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7 On April 21, 1956, Mr. Stevenson urged that the U. S. "give prompt
land earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb."
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66. At the London meetings of the disarmament subcommittee, the U. pee
delegation on April 3, 1956 put forward a working paper suggesting a
step-by-step plan for a first phase of a comprehensive disarmament
program including limitation on conventional armaments, provision
against surprise attack, including President Eisenhower's proposals
for control of the nuclear threat, and limitations on the testing of
nuclear weapons as part of a safeguarded disarmament program. The
paper included a proviso that "the testing of nuclear weapons will be
limited and monitored in an agreed manner, "by an armaments regulation
council which the U. S. proposed should be established, This proposal
was not accepted by the USSR.
69, On April 24, 1956, Governor Stassen held a discussion with Bulganin
and Krushchev in London in which the necessity, method, and sincerity
‘*B. On April 23, 1956, Governor Stassen at the UN Disarmament
.Sabcommittee in London stated that the U. S. is prepared to agree to
‘restrictions on the testing of nuclear weapons provided there has been
agreement on an effective limitation of nuclear weapons under proper
safeguards as a part of the disarmament agreement, and provided this
agreement limiting nuclear weapons has been satisfactorily carried out.
of the "open skies" proposal and 2 1/2 million force level were presented
at length and debated.
70, On April 25, 1956, President Eisenhower at his press conference
stated that the United States has no more interest in developing bigger
nuclear weapons, but is proceeding with testing to find ways and means
to limit the weapon, to make it useful for air defense, to reduce fall-out,
and to make it more a military weapon and less one of mass destruction.
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