Evening star., 1961-09-01
Wiesner Paper
Hinted at u. ).
Test Restraint
BY EARL II. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

nuclear weapon tests may nave
been anticipated by the Soviet
Union before it announced its
own plans to break the testing
moratorium.
A White House statement
yesterday said President Ken
nedy 'is entirely confident that
the size of the United States
nuclear weapons stockpile and
the capabilities of the individ-
ual weapons and delivery sys-
TENS are wholly adequate for
the defense Of the United
States and of the free world"
The Presidents science adj
wiser, DR.. Jerome B. WieSner,
told Soviet scientists last win
ter that further development of
nuclear weapons was not vital
for maintaining an adequate
deterrent:
Wiesner Quoted
In an important presentation
before Soviet and American
scientists gathered in Moscow
last November, DR.. Wiesner
said: "Nuclear weapons de-
velopments .. now make avail
able adequate warheads for any
military need which can be
visualized as arising during the
implementation phase of an
arms-control system, so that
further developments are not
vital for the maintenance Of an
adequate deterrent posture"
This was tantamount to say
ing there was no vital need for
further nuclear testing.
DIR. Wiesner was not then in
the Kennedy administration,
but he was known to have been
a principal adviser of PreSi-
dent-elect Kennedy and also
had served on President Eisen-
hower's Science Advisory Com
mittee.
PugwaSh Paper Published
The complete proceedings of
the sixth Pugwash conference
Of world scientists, held from
November 81 to December 5 in
Moscow. recently became avail
able to The Star. Subsequently
a slightly revised version of DR..
WieSner's Pugwash paper was
published in the book, Arms
Control, Disarmament, and Ma
tional Security" edited by DON
aid G. Brennan with the
sponsorship of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
DR.. Wiesner was asked yes
terday whether he still holds
the views expressed in the
Pugwash paper. He declined
comment, saying it would be
inappropriate to make COM
ments" as a Government Off
cial. All statements on the
resumption of testing ought to
come from President Kennedy,
he said.
The former Massachusetts
Institute of Technology scien-
tist is considered to be the
principal proponent Of the 60
slow school of thought on re-
suming nuclear tests among
administration advisers to
President Kennedy.
20O-MissiIe Deterrent
In his Pugwash paper, DIR.
Wiesner also informed the So
Wet scientists that United
States Army and Navy sources
estimated 200 relatively secure
missiles would constitute an
adequate deterrent against So
Wet attack.
He calculated that it would
take at least 1000 Soviet
rockets to achieve 95 per cent
knockout blow against a secure
200-miSsile force. But he esti-
mated that the residual deter
rent of 10 nuclear rockets still
would be a formidable force
that could threaten the Soviet
Unions 10 greatest cities.
The United States is already
committed to build more than
Is PolariS submarines, each
carrying Is nuclear missiles, a
force of more than 400 missiles
Besides this there are plans for
Atlas, Titan and Minuteman
land-based missiles.
Limited War Doubted
DR.. Wiesner told the Soviet
scientists of his own doubts
about the possibility for limit
ing nuclear war, another view
that clashes with Eisenhower
administration policy and pre-
Sumably with that of the Ken
nedy administration as well.
". Limited nuclear wal
appears to be undesirable from
a military point of view," DR.
Wiesner said in the Brennan
edited books version of the
Pugwash paper, "even in the
absence of arms control. In
that situation, however, one
must be prepared for limited
nuclear war, because the other
side may introduce nuclear
weapons. In the environ
ment of a comprehensive arms
limitation system, on the other
hand, it is possible to enforce
reliable constraints against
arming limited-war forces with
nuclear weapons, which obviates
this problem. We do not wish
to preserve the institution of
limited nuclear war"
China Policy Raped
The Presidents science ad-
wiser also indicated at the
Pugwash conference that he
disapproves present American
policy toward Communist
China.
ANY comprehensive arms
control agreement will of ne
cessity involve the participa-
ton Of the government that
controls the China mainland"
the Vfiesrer paper said, "and
will consequently force tht
United States to take a more
constructive attitlde IN this