DEC 30 1968

Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Wenner-Gren Center
Sveavagen 166
Stockholm VA, Sweden

December 26, 1968

Professor Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Havard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

JAN 8 1969

Dear Henry:

Congratulations to you and to the country. I've been meaning to write for more than a month, to confirm that I am still alive, still engaged in a somewhat fruitless (although quite fascinating) search for friends of NPT; needless to say, such people were not numerous in Israel or India, or in Japan. It does not seem startling to conclude that the treaty is in some trouble, unless an awful lot of carrots and sticks get aligned to coerce some states into signature, and ratification.

Aline and I will stay in Stockholm for about three months, in which time I hope to get some writing done, and some Swedes interviewed, before driving down to Bonn, Vienna, Rome, Geneva, and Bruxelles for a last roundup of the relevant. When anything is presentable, I'll despatch a copy to you, although it seems likely that you may not have time to read any of it. I can sketch out some worrisome scenarios on India's abstention from bomb production, but who can't? Ditto for Israel, and even Japan, although neither frightens me nearly as imminently.

Over the next two years I will probably welcome advice on some major career decisions, as my stay at Harvard is rapidly becoming finite. I hope to be able to consult you on such questions as in the past.