UNCLASSIFIED
The Acting Secretary of State presents his compliments
to His Excellency the Ambassador of Japan and has the honor
to refer to the note from the Embassy of Japan dated January
25, 1956, requesting assurances of compensation in the event
of damage or economic loss arising from the forthcoming
nuclear tests in the Pacific, and the Embassy's note dated
February 14, 1956, transmitting the resolutions of the
Japanese Diet urging suspension of nuclear tests and expressing the strong wish of the Government of Japan that
earnest consideration be given to the realization of the
desire of the people of Japan as expressed in these resolutions
The United States is second to none in its desire for
the safeguarded control and reduction of armaments, including
nuclear Weapons.
President Eisenhower has led the way toward
world cooperation to achieve this goal.
In his address to the
United Nations General Assembly on December 8,
1953, he stated:
". . »the United States pledges before you -~- and there-
fore before the world-~its determination to help solve
the fearful atomic dilemma~-to devote its entire heart
and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inven-
tiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but
consecrated to his life,"
At the Summit Conference in Geneva last summer , President
Eisenhower proposed an exchange of blueprints and a system of
aerial inspection.
1956,
Most recently, in his letter of March 1,
to Premier Bulganin of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, the President stated that:
.
"In my judgment, our efforts must be directed especially
to bringing under control the nuclear threat.
As an
important step for this purpose and assuming the satisfactory operation of our air and ground inspection system
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