https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/f2ffd1c4f9c262b43ba51f34d78a9760.pdf 690712c5f811c7d019be7b01d5956980 PDF Text Text Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information , DS4/592 FM/fcjgHDC APR5L7/58 UNCLAS TO VERNAL APRIORITY INFO TT LDN EMBASSYPARIS NATOPARIS FM OTT PERMISNY FM WASHDC REF OURTEL 825 APR47 V d^^^rf^'^ MR DULLES9 STATEMENT BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGREEMENTS FOR CO0PERATI0N,JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY,APRI7 FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF STATEMENT CONCERNING SECOND GROUND FOR ADOPTION OF PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO 1954 ATOMIC ENERGY ACT,AS GIVEN BY MR DULLES: • I NOW TURN TO THE BEARING OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS UPON OUR**DISARMAMENT" ,OR,TO BE MORE ACCURATE ^LIMITATIONS OF ARMAMENTS" POLICIES, I UNDERSTAND THAT CONCERN HAS BEEN EXPRESSED LEST THESE AMENDMENTS WOULD PROMOTE THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,THUS MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT TO SET UP INTERNATIONAL CONTROLS, AND PERHAPS BRINGING NUCLEAR WEAPONS INTO THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO MIGHT PERHAPS USE THEM IRRESPONSIBLY, I HAVE IN THE PAST EXPRESSED EMPHATICALLY OUR DEEP CONCERN THAT THERE SHOULD NOT RPT NOT BE A PROMISCUOUS SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WE DO NOT RPT NOT WANT SUCH WEAPONS TO GET INTO THE HANDS OF IRRESPONSIBLE DICTATORS AND BECOME POSSIBLE INSTRUMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL BLACKMAIL.AN EVER PRESENT THREAT OF THAT CHARACTER WOULD MAKE THE WORLD A GRIM PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE. WE WOULD DELUDE OURSELVES,HOWEVER,IF WE CONCLUDED THAT THIS SOMBER DEVELOPMENT COULD BE PREVENTED,OR EVEN RETARDED,BY REJECTING THESE AMENDMENTS OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY ACT.MATERIALS NEEDED TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY AVAILABLE AS NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE BUILT0THE KNOWLEDGE NEEDED TO TURN THESE MATERIALS INTO WEAPONS HAS BEEN INDEPENDENTLY ATTAINED BY THREE COUNTRIES, AND THE SCIENTISTS OF MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE THE SKILLS TO ENABLE THEM TO DO THE SAMEoTHE ONLY EFFECTIVE PREVENTIVE IS THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS SHOULD BE GROUGHT UNDER INTERNATIONAL CONTROL, THERE IS TODAY UNDERSTANDABLE RESISTANCE ON THE PART OF OTHER FREE WORLD COUNTRIES TO AN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT WHICH WOULD HAVE o• « 2 000273 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'gcces a I'information PAGE TWO 827 THE EFFECT,I? NOT THE PURPOSE,OF PERPETUATING FOR ALL TIME THEIR s PRESENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS INFERIORITY,WITHOUT THE MITIGATION WHICH WOULD BE MADE POSSIBLE BY THESE AMENDMENTS,OTHER FREE NATIONS WOULD UNDERSTANDABLY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT THAT RESULT AND THE USA DOES NOT RPT NOT WANT TO SEEM TO BE SEEKING TO IMPOSE I T , THE SITUATION IS ALTERED IF THE USA CAN AND WILL DEPLOY NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR COMMON DEFENSIVE USE IN CASE OF ARMED AGGRESS ION,AND SHARE KNOWLEDGE WHICH WILL MAKE OUR ALLIES PARTNERS IN THIS ENDEAVOR,FAILURE TO DO THIS WILL CREATE RESISTANCE,PERHAPS INSUPERABLE RESISTANCE,TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONTROL NEEDED TO PREVENT,OVER COMING YEARS,THE PROMISCUOUS SPREADING,AND POSSIBLE IRRESPONSIBLE USE,OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, THERE IS ANOTHER THOUGHT WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS IN THIS CONNECTION,THE USSR IS MAKING EXTREME EFFORTS TO BRING IT ABOUT THAT THE FREE WORLD NATIONS OF THE EURASIAN CONTINENT WILL BE LIMITED TO CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AS AGAINST THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY OF THE U S S R , I F IT CAN SUCCEED IN THIS EFFORT,IT WILL HAVE ALREADY ACHIEVED A ONE-SIDED DISARMAMENT WHICH INVOLVES NO RPT NO CONTROLS OR LIMITATIONS WHATEVER ON THE USSR,BUT ONLY LIMITATION UPON THE NEIGHBORING NATIONS OF THE EURASIAN CONTINENT.UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES,THERE WILL BE MUCH LESS INCENTIVE FOR THE USSR TO SEEK A BALANCED LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT,.,, , , , T O REALIZE THIS CONCEPT REQUIRES THE AMENDMENTS NOW PROPOSED TO THIS ACT,NOT RPT NOT THUS TO AMEND THE ACT WOULD IN EFFECT MAKE THE USA A PARTNER WITH THE USSR IN IMPOSING ON OUR NATO ALLIES SUCH AN INCAPACITY TO USE NUCLEAR TACTICAL WEAPONS THAT SOVIET DOMINANCE OVER WESTERN EUROPE WOULD BE LARGELY ACHIEVED AND LITTLE INCENTIVE WOULD BE LEFT FOR THE USSR TO LIMIT ITS OWN ARMAMENT, AND OUR NATO ALLIES WILL NOT RPT NOT FEEL THE STRENGTH AND CONFIDENCE NEEDED TO PURSUE VIGOROUS ANTI-COMMUNIST POLICIES IF THEY FEEL THAT THEY ARE DOMINATEDBY A SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY AND THAT WE WILL NOT RPT NOT SHARE OUR NUCLEAR CAPABILITY o • e <3 000274 �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information PAGS THREE 827 "WITH THEM,EVEN TO THE MODEST EXTENT REQUIRED TO ENABi-E THEM TO SHARE IN THi -LANNING OF A NUCLEAR DEFENSE AND MAKE THEM CAPABLE OF USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS RECEIVED FROM US IF HOSTILITIES SHOULD OCCUR, ON THE OTHER HAND ; IF THESE AMENDMENTS ARE ENACTED,WE WILL NOT RPT NOT HAVE DISARMED OUR ALLIES,AND THE USSR WILL HAVE AN I N CENTIVE,OTHERWISE LACKING,TO ACHIEVE BALANCED AND MULTILATERAL LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT." 000275 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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