The Nome Nugget

Russia Presents Five-Point Program
At Geneva For Banning Nuclear Tests

LONDON, (A.P.) -- Russia unveiled Saturday a five-point plan for ending nuclear tests and setting up control posts.
The Soviet Tass Agency said the plan was submitted to the Geneva Conference on ending nuclear tests.
It added that the draft consists of five articles saying:
1. The governments of the three great powers solemnly undertake to conduct no tests of any type of nuclear weapons after the agreement is signed.
2. They undertake to contribute toward adoption of similar commitments by other states.
3. Parties to the agreement shall set up control machinery with a network of control posts.
4. The governments of the great powers agree to the establishment of control posts on their territories.
5. There shall be no time limit to the proposed agreement.
By tying in articles on control machinery, the Russian draft presumably was aimed at meeting Western objections to previous Soviet proposals.
So far the Russians have always demanded an unconditional ending of tests without control machinery. The West wants a cast iron control system first.
Tass, reporting the preamble to the draft, says it is aimed at ending the nuclear arms race and barring the road to creation of new types of atomic weapons.