Dear Mr. Krushchev
By the mid-1950`s, policy-makers in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain - the three nuclear powers - feared that an unconstrained nuclear arms race might lead to disaster. In october 1958, the three nations began talks on a comprehensive test ban treaty, an on-again, off-again negotiation that continues to the present day. When the test-ban talks began, Viktor Adamskii was a 35 year-old theoretical physicist at Arzamas-16, a key Soviet nuclear weapons laboratory. In the following essay, Adamskii, who still works at the laboratory, relates how he and his colleagues - deeply concerned about the medical dangers of radioactive fallout - attemped to influence Soviet policy-makers to accept an agreement that would bar all tests except those conducted underground. A Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963.
- OSTI ID:
- 377013
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Journal Name: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 51; ISSN BASIAP; ISSN 0096-5243
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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