Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-17

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knowledge on Tests
FELIX MCKNIGHT editor
in chief of the Dallas Times
Herald: Mr.. Chairman, during
our trip We heard a number
of criticisms of the current
series of nuclear tests conducted
by the United States of Amer
lea. This compelS us to ask
ourselves the question, do the
Soviet people know firstly, that
the Soviet Union ended the
three-year moratorium on nu-
clear testing and was the first
to carry out 40 tests of its
nuclear weapons and that after
the Soviet Union carried out it's
tests. President Kennedy de-
clared that the United States
would not resume testing, if a
mutually acceptable test ban
agreement was reached? Sec
ondly. is it known that the re-
cent American explosion in the
upper atmosphere was designed
to check the defensive capa-
hility of the United States in
connection with your state
ment, Mr.. Khrushchev. that
the Soviet Union has a global
rocket. capable of piercing the
defenSeS of the United States?
KHRUSHCHEV: I must dis
appoint you. The high-altitude
explosion carried out by the
United States will in no way
interfere with the action of our
global rockets. From your
statement I conclude that you
are uniformed in rocketry
and on the principle of the
action of rockets. You fell
victim of people who abused
your confidence. Don't you re-
peat what you have just said
here in the presence Of an
engineer because you will simply
become a laughing stock.
What you have Just said
simply beats the limit.
1 am not Boosting but we
actually have a global rocket
which cannot be destroyed by
any anti-rocket means, and 1
know. if anybody does, what
anti-rocket means are, because
we do have them. You can say
our rocket hits a fly in outer
space.
Now concerning tests. On
this question, too, you have
been misled and clearly do not
follow closely enough the So
Wet or even the American
press.
No one can say that the
Soviet Union was the first to
start tests, just as you cannot
say that the United States was
first in outer space.
Who was THE first to begin
atomic tests? The United States
of America.
U. S. Is Blamed
Who used atomic weapons
to kill people in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki? The United States
of America.
You say that we ended the
moratorium. In point Of fact,
it was not at all as you say.
In carrying our tests of nuclear
weapons. the Soviet Union from
the very beginning replied to
the corresponding series Of
nuclear tests held by the United
States. But talks on the end
ing of nuclear tests began after
a regular series of American
tests to which the Soviet Union
did not reply, in the expecta-
ton that a treaty to end all
nuclear tests would be signed.
The Soviet Union conducted
negotiations in good faith until
the President Of the United
States announced a mobiliza-
ton of armed forces and
started threatening us with war.
Then we recided to carry out
tests of nuclear weapons so
that our army should be better
prepared in case the United
States President realized this
threat and unleaShed q war
against the Soviet Union.
But even this time. too, the
tests were carried out by the
Soviet Union in reply to earlier
tests by the United States.
So no one can say that we
wrecked the moratorium. For
the number of series of tests,
the United States keeps ahead
all the time, and the Soviet
Union will come abreast of the
United States-not in the num-
Der of explosions mind you, but
in the number of test series
only if it carries out its own
tests, after the current series
of American tests. We hope
that following this the United
States will, perhaps, agree after
all to sign a treaty on the end
ing of tests for all time"
HILLS: Mr.. Chairman,
we have many more questions
but we are grateful to you for
the time you have spared for
us.
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