Test blast proposed
NZPA-Reuter Geneva The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Dr Sigvard Eklund, has proposed a demonstration explosion of a nuclear weapon in order to create a widespread world reaction against such devices. Dr Eklund made his proposal at the opening session of the United Nations conference to review success in implementing the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty. He said that there was now “global overkill” capacity, with 50,000 nuclear weapons of a combined explosive power equivalent to more than one million of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima. “How I wish that in a way consistent with the limited test-ban treaty the nuclear weapon powers would now arrange- a demonstration explosion of a weapon — not necessarily the most sophisticated one from their point of view — to give the news media the world over an idea of the destructive power of the new nuclear weapons,” he said.
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Press, 13 August 1980, Page 9
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