UNCLASSIFIED
stockpiles of explosive weapons.
With this could be
combined my proposal of December 8, 1953, 'to begin
now and continue to make joint contributions! from
existing stockpiles of normal uranium and fissionable
materials to an international atomic agency.
These
measures, if carried out adequately, would reverse the
present trend toward a constant increase in nuclear
weapons overhanging the world.
My ultimate hope is thi
all production of fissionable materials anywhere in th
world will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes
The United States recognizes and strongly sympathizes
with the humane motivations which inspired the resolutions 0:
the Japanese Diet, but is constrained to point out that the
problem of suspending nuclear weapons tests cannot be treatec
separately from the establishment of a safeguarded and controlled disarmament program.
The United States Government is convinced that the pro]
nuclear tests are vital to 1ts own defense and the defense o
the freeworld because the possession and competence in the u
of nuclear weapons by leading nations of the free world are
chief deterrent to aggression and to war.
International
agreement to abandon tests without effective safeguards agai
the clandestine development of new weapons would involve a
reliance by the United States upon the good intentions of
certain nations not justified by the record of their actions
in the past.
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The United States Government is convinced that no worl:
health hazard exists from the past or planned tests.
In this
connection the United States proposed a resolution unanimous:
adopted by the United Nations Tenth General Assembly establi:
agsientific committee on radiation,
of which Japan is a memb
to facilitate pooling and distribution of all available scie
fic data on the effects of radiation upon man and his enviroi
During the forthcoming tests the United States will make eve