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Any violation, moreover, involves along with the risk of detection --
the end of the treaty and world-wide - consequences for the violator. Secret
violations are possible and secret preparations for a sudden withdrawal are
possible -- and thus our own vigilance and strength must be maintained, as we
remain ready to withdraw and to resume all forms of testing, if we must. But
it would be a mistake to assume that this treaty will be quickly broken. The gains of
illegal testing are obviously slight compared to their cost and the hazard of discovery.
And the nations which have initialed and will sign this treaty prefer it, in my
judgment, to unrestricted testing as a matter of their own self-interest. For these
nations, too, and all nations, have a stake in limiting the arms race, in halting the
spread of nuclear weapons, and in breathing air that is not radioactive.
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