70 Year Magazine Archive

The Third World War

by James Burnham

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Why Moscow Wants to Stop Nuclear Tests

The Geneva “Conference of experts to study the possibility of detecting violations of a possible agreement on suspension of nuclear tests”—that mouthful is the official title—opened in the classic manner of East-West confrontations. Dr. James B. Fisk, head of the Western delegation, made a polite, formal, friendly statement. His final paragraph extended its brotherly clauses to the Communist negotiators: “Each of us brings to our task the tradition of science, a tradition that places the highest premium on objectivity.”

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