Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Governmental AffairsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - Legislative hearings |
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Page 102 - Seeking to achieve the discontinuance of all test explosions of nuclear weapons for all time...
Page 17 - ... effective safeguards to protect complying States against the hazards of violations and evasions...
Page 175 - All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Page 142 - The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Energy Research and Development Administration.
Page 313 - If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky, That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One . . . I am become Death, The shatterer of worlds.
Page 216 - In any event, no license may be issued to any person within the United States if, in the opinion of the Commission, the issuance of a license to such person would be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Page 16 - The development of atomic energy for peaceful purposes and the development of atomic energy for bombs are in much of their course interchangeable and interdependent. From this it follows that although nations may agree not to use in bombs the atomic energy developed within their borders, the only assurance that a conversion to destructive purposes would not be made would be the pledged word and the good faith of the nation itself. This fact puts an enormous pressure upon national good faith. Indeed...
Page 339 - The United States would seek more than the mere reduction or elimination of atomic materials for military purposes. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.
Page 10 - ... international agency. At some stage in the development of the plan this is required. But neither the plan nor our transmittal of it should be construed as meaning that this should or should not be done at the outset or at any specific time. That decision, whenever made, will involve considerations of the highest policy affecting our security, and must be made by our government under its constitutional processes and in the light of all the facts of the world situation.
Page 109 - ... significant and substantial reductions in the numbers of strategic offensive arms; 2) qualitative limitations on strategic offensive arms, including restrictions on the development, testing, and deployment of new types of strategic offensive arms and on the modernization of existing strategic offensive arms...