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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005284693
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2008
• Case Number: F-2008-00942
• Publication Date: February 25, 1966

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At the Geneva disarmament
talks the major powers seem to
have moved no closer to agreement
on a nonproliferation treaty.
The negotiations now are compli-
cated by the insistence of some
of the nonaligned states that the
nuclear powers must make conces-
sions if they expect other coun-
tries to agree not to acquire
nuclear weapons.
India, which usually acts
as the voice of the nonaligned
at Geneva, has publicly stated
that neither the Soviet nor the
US draft of a nonproliferation
treaty is acceptable. Not only
does India oppose "special dis-
pensation" for military alliances
in the context of nonprolifera-
tion, but its delegate has de-
clared that any treaty acceptable
to New Delhi must embody obliga-
tions on the part of the nuclear
states--such as a freeze on pro-
duction of nuclear weapons and
vehicles.
the Indian Government to develop
its own nuclear weapons. India
has been supported by Japan,
whose foreign minister has taken
the stand that the nuclear powers
should not try to prevent non-
nuclear powers from obtaining
nuclear capability without re-
ducing their own nuclear resources.
Given the special concerns
of the nonaligned, Soviet Premier
Kosygin's recent proposal to pro-
hibit use of nuclear weapons
against nonnuclear states which
are parties to the nonprolifera-
tion treaty and which do not have
nuclear weapons on their terri-
tories appears to have been well
timed. His ideas quickly won a
sympathetic response from the
nonaligned, but the West sees in
them an obstacle to any nuclear-
sharing arrangements in NATO.
They also raise the question
whether the US and its Allies
would be allowed to continue to
station nuclear weapons in West
Germany.
This demand reflects the
growing feeling of insecurity
among Indian defense officials
in light of the recent Indian-
Pakistani difficulties and fur-
ther development of the Chinese
nuclear weapons program. There
is now increasing pressure on
A Western counterproposal--
perhaps one that simply offered
assistance from nuclear powers
to nonnuclear powers in case of
attack--is being considered but
no agreed draft has been produced.