34 SENATORS ASK NEW PUSH BY U.S. TO LIMIT A-TESTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200310084-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: May 28, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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a underground testing. In fact, ?
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rising pressure on the RusslanS-
t or under wiat "r as long as the a to accept a system of reason-
Soviet Union abstains front able safeguards as the essential
in Air Would Be Banned ^ti.'tt tests. price of including underground'
by Resolution's Terms sputlsored by Senator Hum. -Oegree of Risk Conceded
oiury and 28 nthcr Senators-- : Senator Dodd warned that'
22 Denw(rats anrt sig. Repub- ?'rven a limited test ban would'
By JOHN W, FINNEY ~icaris? invelre "a, degree of risk," since'
}:pnclai to 711, Nev YDrk Titnt+ ti there w$$ "at least a serious
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% ASHINGTON, May 7 Possibility that certain types of
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A move developed to the Senate atmospheric tests could not be'
i?;ibmission of the resolution?
c:fectively?taonltored from poci
today to break the stalemate oniSenatnr Dodd said such s par ti,,ns outside the Soviet Union."
nuclear test-ban treaty by, tied Lost ban would be "a tre-. The resolution, however, pointed'
first-step agreement banning al);r1ing" toward a cessation of all#gtnderwater tests could be "mon
.atmospheric and undenvatefilestb. including those under-; i`ored by the United States
o rt,n.,.a n> i? .- without on-site inspection ,:on '
tive advocates of progress 'on, the amount of testing con-! Administration, in ease: the
the test-ban issue -- Senator'ttucted by both sides," the Cori.; United States does stop atmo
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:Thomas J. Dodd, Democrat Ofneeticut Democrat said. It spheric tests, to "maintain our
:Connecticut, and Senator 116-'!Would eliminate the testing of constantf readinessiso thatethe
Bert H. Humphrey, Democrat of.multi-megaton weapons. it-United States will=:,nei?er be
Minnesota. would take account of the le-' caught by surprise" by asuddcui,
Senator Dodd,, introduced a gitimate, if somewhat exag- Soviet resumption of Le,ttin 1.
gerated, concern of world ub- Senators Dodd and Humphrey
resolutlott calling upon the Ad p !agreed that a treaty banning?
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all tests that 'contaminate the' "Moreover, once such an pressed doubt that a compte-3
at mosphere 'or'the oceans., agreement was reached, it could' hensive treaty,. under the terms
Proposals Offered Previously Ibe extended, in stages, to other now proposed by the Admlir_
areas as improved methods of
The idea of a partial test hanj istration, would be ratified byl
ring and detection be-
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ect eiinl only readily detectable came
came available, thus justifying
atmospheric tests is .not new. an extension in the scope of the;
It was formally; proposed by the agreement." .
Eisenhower A4irtilitistrtttioat ire Senator Humphrey, who in the
.April, ]959, and 'again by , past has differed sharply with
l:emeedy Administration' In Mi.. Senator Dodd over the adequacy
l5i 1942. of the Administration's pro-
posals v- -
for a comprehensive test
ban, described the resolution as
"a major attempt to stuff the
genie of radioactive contamina-
tion and proliferation back into
the bottle where it belongs."
I?'lts Into White house Aim
The resolution, while not:
open by cndorsed?by the Admin-
istration, fits into the devlop-:
ing White House strategy' of,
applying pressure on the Soviet;
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