NUCLEAR TESTS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29912, 28 August 1962, Page 15

NUCLEAR TESTS

Partial Ban Call (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEWPORT (Rhode Island), August 27. Britain and the United States today called on the Soviet Union to agree to a treaty banning atmospheric, underwater and outer-space nuclear tests without inspection. The British Prime Minister (Mr Macmillafi) and President Kennedy said in a joint statement released at the summer White House at Newport that unlike underground testing, nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space “can be effectively verified without on-site- inspections." The two leaders said in the joint statement they could not "emphasise too strongly the urgency” of ending all nuclear testing, "once and for all. “For the safety and security of ’ all of us. this deadly competition must be halted. And we, again, urge the Soviet Government to join with us in meaningful action to make this necessity a reality." But. the statement said, they were prepared to reach an early agreement on a more limited ban “if this represents the widest area of agreement possible at this time.” Such a limited agreement would make it easier to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries and also “free mankind from the dangers and fear of radioactive fallout." "Agreement on such a treaty might be a first step towards an agreement banning testing in all environments,” the joint statement said. Spacemen's Landings. Major Gagarin, the first Russian spaceman, landed on earth inside his cabin while the other three Russian spacemen made the last part of their descent by parachute, Moscow Radio reported.— Moscow, August 27.