LETTER TO MR. SECRETARY FROM JAMES H. DOUGLAS
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THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON
JUL 1 1960
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2 1 JUL 1960
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
Comments on JCS Views on Draft Treat,
on Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons
Tests, 13 June 1960
1. This is for information only.
2. The JCS comments are to a large extent a reiteration
of the usual Defense objections to a treaty on this subject which
does not provide absolute guarantees against renewed Soviet
testing. Since it will probably never be possible to obtain such
a guarantee, it is unlikely that the JCS will ever be happy with
any treaty. The important factor is to have the control system
sufficiently good that, when combined with our unilateral intelli-
gence systems, it will deter the Soviets from risking a clandest-=ne
test, Furthermore, the risk to U. S. security of a clandestine
Soviet test must be balanced against the risks of a continued
arms race and the positive value that such a treaty with its
inspection provisions might have to U. S. security.
3. It should be noted that in paragraph 6 the Joint Chiefs'
object to a unilateral moratorium below the threshold although
this has been approved by the President. They fail to take into
consideration that we already are in a period of a unilateral
moratorium without having obtained any of the benefits which a
treaty would provide.
/nERBERT SCOVILLE, JR.
Assistant Director
Scientific Intelligence
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STAT
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FORM N
I APR 55 237 Replaces Form 30-4
which may be used.
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