U.S. Objections To Test Ban Plan

Press, Volume C, Issue 29685, 1 December 1961, Page 13

U.S. Objections To Test Ban Plan

(N.Z.P.A.-&tMT-£oVVTmht> GENEVA, November 29. The United States served notice today that it would not allow Russia to gain any unilateral advantage from having broken the nuclear test moratorium last September, the British United Press reported.

The chief United States delegate (Mr Arthur Dean) told the three-Power nuclear teat ban talks in Geneva that the West had withdrawn its offer that teats in the atmosphere be controlled merely by national, instead of international, detection methods. Accusing Russia of a high degree of cynicism about a test ban. Mr Dera aaid: “We see no reason now to run the risks of successful cheating by accepting any nuclear test ban without adequate controls because this would only reward the U.S.S.R. for its past violations. •The -Ituation has radically altered after the big Soviet test series, largely carried out in the atmosphere," he said. Mr Dean demanded that a test ban on any type of nuclear explosions—in the atmosphere, in outer space, under water or underground—would have to be policed by

an effective InteroeUcsMl control system. Mr Dean told Mr Semyon Tsarapkin, the Russian dele* gate, that there could be no confidence thet Russia’s new pledge for a test boa would not be violated. He accused the Soviet Union of “a high de*«e of cynicism about a test ban.”

yesterday. for banning tests without international inspection and control. The Soviet delegate told reporter* after the meeting that Russia had not given up the principle of international control and inspection, hut wanted it linked with ganeral and complete disarmament “a* an integral part." Ha aaid Mr Dean's motion to :he new RuMiae proposal* had been “emo-lonal. not official, he said -We are waiting for a reply an the Government level*