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that the United States should have the same rights within its annual quota of inspection.

Perhaps your comment would be that a seismic event in another area designated for inspection might coincide with a highly sensitive defense installation. I recognize this as a real problem but believe that some arrangement can be worked out which would prevent this unlikely contingency from erecting an insuperable obstacle.

Your suggestion as to the three locations in the Soviet Union in which there might be unmanned seismic stations is helpful but it does not seem to me to go far enough. These stations are all outside the areas of highest seismicity and therefore do not record all of the phenomena within those areas. These stations would be helpful in increasing the detection capability of the system but I doubt that they would have the same value in reducing the number of suspicious seismic events by identifying some as earthquakes. For this purpose unmanned seismic stations should be in the areas of highest seismicity, not outside them. To achieve this result there would be need for a number of stations in the vicinity of the Kamchatka area and a number in the Tashkent area. It might be possible, of course, to reduce somewhat the number actually in the Soviet Union by arranging stations in Hokkaido, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. If the stations on Soviet territory were sited in locations free from local disturbances and could be monitored periodically by competent United States or international observers who took in portable seismometers and placed them on the pedestals it would be very helpful in reducing the problem of identification.

You have referred to the discussion of the "black box" proposal at the Tenth Pugwash Conference in London in September of this year as a United Kingdom proposal to which the United States has agreed. I do not believe that this was the situation. This proposal was reported to me as a Soviet proposal which was discussed with some United States scientists. Of the United States scientists who signed the statement none represented the United States Government or had discussed the matter with responsible officials.__All were speaking as individuals and none were seismologists. Their agreement does not signify anything other than that this was an area which justified further study. The United States Government has given it that study and the results have been the conclusions which I have indicated above.

Notwithstanding these problems, I am encouraged by your letter. I do not believe that any of the problems which I have raised are insoluble but they ought to be solved. I wonder how you think we might best proceed with these discussions which may require some technical development. It occurs to me that you might wish to have your representative meet with Mr. William C. Foster, the Director of our Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, at a mutually convenient place, such as New York or Geneva. I will be glad to have your suggestions. After talks have been held we will then be in a position to evaluate where we stand and continue our work together for an effective agreement ending all nuclear tests.

INDEX

A

ABMA. (See Army Ballistic Missile Agency.)

Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, created Decem-
ber 13, 1958__

Exploratory work on aspects of peaceful uses of outer space..
Legal problems that might arise from outer space activities.
Mandate of the committee_.

Peaceful use of outer space, statement by U.S. Representative Lodge

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Agreement (see also Treaties) between the United States and the Soviet

Union on cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space_

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Air Force Association, address to, by Secretary of the Air Force Zuckert__
Air Force:

Destruction of balloons.

Meteorological balloons_

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8

9

9

117, 141

91

92

93

9n, 101

184

6

2

1

175

292

273

273

274

275

276

277

331

29

28

28

166

17, 214, 334

17

214

331

206

179, 180, 183

2

6

157

327

2, 292, 329

292

226

182

17

215

385

Meteorological survey (Moby Dick).

Allen, George V., Director, U.S. Information Agency.

Alouette:

Canadian satellite.

Space satellite launched September 29, 1962_
Topside Sounder program_

Apollo three-man spacecraft program.

Argentine-United States cooperation in space research_

Armaments (see also Disarmament and Nuclear weapons), reduction and

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ARPA. (See Advanced Research Projects Agency.)

Astronauts (see also name of astronaut), and space vehicles, assistance to
and return of..

Atlas, intercontinental ballistic missile.

Atlas D, intercontinental ballistic missile_

Atmospheric science and technology, to advance..

Atomic energy, international control, Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal.
Aurora 7, space vehicle of Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter-

Australia, Woomera Range-

B

Ballistic missiles. (See Missiles.)

Barnard, Chester I., Chairman of National Science Board, exchange of
letters with President Eisenhower on U.S. participation in IGY pro-
gram..

Bell Telephone laboratories design and build Telstar satellite...

Berkner, Dr. Lloyd V., Chairman of Space Science Board of National
Academy of Sciences..

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26

283

212

Blagonravov, Anatoly A., Soviet academician....

17

Bordeau, Robert, Planetary Ionospheres Branch, Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Md...

258, 264

British Aeronautical Research Committee_

1

British Broadcasting Corp., remarks by Secretary of State Rusk over...
British Skylark rockets-

290

215

Bugaev, Dr. V. A., Director of Central Weather Forecasting Institute of
the Soviet Union___

368

Bulganin, Nikolai A., Soviet Premier:

Military preparation by NATO members, protested_.
Peaceful use of outer space discussed by.

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President Eisenhower proposes agreement be made to use outer space
only for peaceful purposes--

Prohibition of ICBM's with nuclear warheads, question of..

Bumper-Wac rocket..

с

California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion_Laboratory.
Cambridge Research Laboratories of the U.S. Air Force___.

Canada:

Canada-United States Alouette Topside Sounder_-_-

Cooperation in space studies and experiments with the United States-

Defence Research Board__

Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment__

Legal problems of outer space, proposals on..

Scientific and peaceful purposes in outer space, address by Canadian

CCIR. (See International Radio Consultative Committee.)

Charts of Earth's magnetic field, cooperation of United States and U.S.S.R.
in compiling..

52

55

2

1,292
290

17, 214, 334

167,

334

334, 335

334

282

183

17, 266

17

226, 369

188

260

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Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (see also First Committee
of the General Assembly):

Additional members.

16

General Assembly urges Committee to elaborate on basic legal prin-
ciples governing activities of states in exploration and use of outer
space--

21

International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space, report of

Introduction..........

Opening statement by the chairman, made at the 10th meeting
of the Committee, on September 10, 1962---
Proposals presented to the Committee at its second session__

United Arab Republic: Draft code for international coopera-
tion in the peaceful uses of outer space-

336

336

345

349

353

United States: Draft proposal on assistance to and return of
space vehicles and personnel.

351

United States: Draft proposal on liability for space vehicle
accidents__-

352

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space-Continued
International cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space-Con.
Proposals presented to the Committee at its second session-Con.
U.S.S.R.: Draft declaration of the basic principles governing
the activities of states pertaining to the exploration and
use of outer space..
U.S.S.R.: Draft international agreement on the rescue of
astronauts and spaceships making emergency landings...
Recommendation based on the report of the Scientific and Tech-
nical Subcommittee and reports prepared by the World Mete-
orological Organization and the International Telecommunica-
tions Union___.

Encouragement of international programs.
Exchange of information..

International equatorial sounding rocket launching facilities_
Registration of objects launched into outer space..

Report of the Legal Subcommittee on the work of its first session_
Space science and technology-

Statement by the Chairman, approved by the Committee at its
9th meeting, on March 29, 1962-

Legal Subcommittee_

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349

350

338

339

338

341

344

343

244-248

344

20, 269

Reports of...

280, 343

Practical tasks of exploring and using outer space, U.S. statement.
Resolution for international cooperation, adopted, December 14, 1962.
Resolution on space cooperation__.

323

21

15

Scientific and Technical Subcommittee_

Submits report to General Assembly-

Statement by Soviet Representative Morozov, on peaceful uses of
outer space-

20

319

20

Committee on Space Research__.

4

Consultative Committee_.

Meeting at The Hague, March 1959-

Communications Satellite Act of 1962.

Approved August 31, 1962..

Communications Satellite Corp-

Corporation, creation of..

Directors and officers__ _

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Financing of..

313

Organization, process of..

312

Purposes and powers of

314

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Experiments, cooperation by United States, United Kingdom, and
France.

Optimum use at earliest practicable time.

315

316

315

315

307, 308

162, 186, 205, 243

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COSPAR. (See Committee on Space Research.)

Courier, communication satellite-

Message sent via

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187, 188
184

CSAGI. (See Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year.)
Davidson College, address by Secretary of State Rusk

Dean, Arthur H., U.S. delegate to Geneva Conference on Discontinuance

234

of Nuclear Weapons Tests...

Declaration of Basic Principles, omnibus document.

Defence Research Board, Canada___.

Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment, Canada....

Department of Commerce:

International Meteorological Satellite Workshop..

International participation in TIROS satellite experiment_

12, 210

269, 361

334, 335

334

209

183

Department of Defense (see also Air Force):

Exploring the potentialities of outer space_

Logistical and technical support of satellite program, responsibility for

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Diefenbaker, John, Canadian Prime Minister: Jurisdiction in outer space,
address by, to the General Assembly

183

Disarmament (see also Nuclear headings):

Armaments, regulation of quantities of all kinds of
Armaments mounted on orbital satellites, ban on.........
Arms control and___

Agreed principles for disarmament, negotiations by United States
and U.S.S.R...

220

179

183

278

Control of objects entering outer space__

40, 49

Draft resolution on, address by U.S. Representative Stevenson_.
Eighteen-Nation Conference, statement by Soviet delegate-

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Moch, Jules, French Representative to the First Committee of the
General Assembly, statement by..

159

Nuclear testing above ground, ban on, discussed by Stevenson_
Nuclear testing, joint statement by United States and United King-
dom, April 10, 1962-

355

253

Outline of basic provisions for a treaty by United States..

19

Plan for general and comprehensive disarmament in a free and peace-
ful world..

176

Preventive...

19

Principles and conditions for general and complete disarmament
under effective international control__

177

Program for general and complete disarmament, proposed declaration
submitted by United States to General Assembly.

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