e. In order to place statements of nuclear weapons in perspective, high-level statements and guidance should (a) enntinue to emphasize U.S. dedication to establishing the conditions of an enduring peace, including the adnption of genuine safeguarded disarament, (b) stress U.S. determination, pending reduction in international tensions, to keep its armed strength, including nuclear weapons, at a level sufficient to deter any would-be aggressor, «~~ > (c) should point out that our muclear weapons, together with those of our Allies, have rightly been called the defense shield of the free world, and (d) emphasize the substative elements of U.S. peaceful uses of atomic energy programse Attachment : Annex "A", +> + - CONFIDENTIAL \. wee be \ .. Le