“The Soviet Union has steadfastly resisted the adoption of key measures of international control which alone could afford a reasonable degree of assurance to all states that the parties to a [test] ban treaty are adhering to their obligations.”
So read, at long last (would you not agree?), a forthright paragraph of the July 15 note of the United States to the Soviet Government. An earlier message (June 17) had pointed out that “more than one hundred large seismic events occur annually in the Soviet Union.” Since “only a small percentage of this number can be identified as earthquakes,” any or all of the remainder may in fact be secret underground tests.
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