https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/5619d4b1040e830d5c7fb29b3a98b86c.pdf 72a08ae7db1dcdc23f6a4c9b345e8116 PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a /'Information F« NATOPARIS FEB7/66 SECRET TO EXTERNAL 270 PRIORITY INFO EMBPARIS WASHDC LDN DISARMDELGNEVA PERMISNY TT CANFORCEHED DE OTT FOLLOWING FROM ROBINSON USA POSITION ON NUCLEAR TESTING GENERAL BURCHINAL.USA REP ON W6 I OF SPECIAL CTTEE OF DEFENCE MINISTERS WHO IS ALSO SECRETARY OF USA JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, ELABORATED IN INFORMAL DISCUSSION ON USA POSITION WITH REGARD TO NUCLEAR TESTING AND ITS RELATION TO ABM DEVELOPMENTS,ETU 2«BURCHINAL SAID THAT LAST SOVIET SERIES OF TESTS HAD BEEN VERY SOPHISTICATED,THAT USA DID NOT RPT NOT YET KNOW WHAT RUSSIANS HAD LEARNED FROM THAT SERIES AND THOUGHT IT QUITE POSSIBLE THAT RUSSIANS HAD LEARNED THINGS USA DID NOT RPT NOT KNOW YET.USA FOR ITS PART DURING MORATORIUM HAD ALLOWED ITS TEST PROGRAMME TO RUN DOWN AND HAD BEEN CAUGHT OFF BASE BY SOVIET RESUMPTION OF TESTING. CURRENT USA TEST ACTIVITY WAS CONTINUING TO YIELD IMPORTANT NEW INFO WHICH IT HAD NOT RPT NOT FORESEEN AS BEING OBTAINABLE FROM UNDERGROUND TESTS.USA WOULD BE VERY CAUTIOUS ABOUT AGREEING TO BAN UNDERGROUND TESTS UNTIL IT ESTABLISHED LIMIT OF INFO WHICH COULD BE OBTAINED BY THIS MEANS AND COULD THUS ESTABLISH THAT THERE WAS NOT RPT NOT INFO OBTAINED BY RUSSIANS WHICH COULD GIVE THEM SIGNIFICANT LEAD OVER USA KNOWLEDGE. 3.THIS CONSIDERATION WAS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO ABM CAPABILITIES,, BURCHINAL SAID THAT MCNAMARAS REPORTED DECISION THAT DEPLOYMENT •••000015 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information PAGE TWO 2 7 0 OF ANTI-SOVIET ABM SYSTEM WAS UNNECESSARY WAS RATIONALIZATION TO COVER SHORTAGE OF FUNDS.ACKNOWLEDGING THAT OTHER CONSIDERATIONS (EG ESCALATION OF USA-SOVIET DEFENCE HARDWARE COMPETITION)WERE INVOLVED,HE INDICATED THAT IN USA MILITARY EYES DESIRABLE COURSE WAS TO DEPLOY AN ANTI-SOVIET ABM SYSTEM.MARGINAL ELEMENT OF OR INCREMENT TO THIS SYSTEM WOULD BE ADEQUATE TO COVER ANY COUNTRY £ 6 CHINA)BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT. 4.BURCHINAL SAID THAT WHILE USA OFFENSIVE CAPABILITY CCULD DEAL WITH KNOWN SOVIET DEFENSIVE CAPABILITIES AND WITH KNOWN SOVIET CAPABILITY TO DEPLOY AN ABM SYSTEM, IT WAS NOT RPT NOT KNOWN WHETHER RUSSIANS WERE DEPLOYING OR WOULD DEPLOY SUCH SYSTEM, MOREOVER,RECENT SOVIET SERIES OF SOPHISTICATED TESTS HAD BEEN DISTURBING IN THAT IT WAS NOT RPT NOT KNOWN WHAT INFO RELEVANT TO ABM DEFENCE RUSSIANS MIGHT HAVE OBTAINED FROM IT,AND HENCE WHAT ACTUAL SOVIET ABM CAPABILITY MIGHT BE.IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES USA WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO AGREE TO BAN OF UNDERGROUND TESTS UNTIL IT HAD ESTABLISHED LIMIT OF INFO RELEVANT TO ABM DEFENCE VJHICH COULD BE OBTAINED BY THIS MEANS. 5.BURCHINALS REMARKS LEFT SOME QUESTION IN OUR MINDS WHETHER MCNAMARAS REMARKS AT NATO MINISTERIAL MTG IN DEC COULD BS TAKEN AS REFLECTING FINAL DECISION NOT RPT NOT TO DhPLOY AN ANTI-SOVIET ABM SYSTEM,THEY ALSO SUGGESTED THAT USA WAS LIKELY TO BE SLOW TO AGREE TO FOURTH ENVIRONMENT TEST BANoON OTHER HAND.BURCHINAL SAID THAT FROM MILITARY POINT CF VIEW USA COULD AFFORD TO BE FAIRLY • « • Tl 000016 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information PAGE THREE 2 7 0 FORTHCOMING WITH REGARD TO NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY.THIS LAST POINT LENDS SUPPORT TO VIEW THAT USA CAUTION ON NON-PROLIFERATION RESTS UPON POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS PRESUMABLY RELATING MAINLY TO GERMAN ASPIRATIONS,RATHER THAN UPON MILITARY CONSIDERATIONS. 000017 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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