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But to halt the spread of these terrible weapons, to halt the contamination
of the air, to halt the spiralling nuclear arms race, we remain ready to
seek new avenues of agreement, our new Disarmament Program thus
includes the following proposals:
First, signing the Test-Ban Treaty by all Nations. This
can be done now. Test ban negotiations need not and should not
await general disarmament.
Second, stopping the production of fissionable materials for
use in weapons, and preventing their transfer to any nation now
lacking in nuclear weapons.
Third, prohibiting the transfer of control over nuclear weapons
to states that do not own them.
Fourth, keeping nuclear weapons from seeding new battle-
grounds in outer space.
Fifth, gradually destroying existing nuclear weapons and
converting their materials to peaceful uses; and
-- Finally, halting the unlimited testing and production of
strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, and gradually destroying them
as well.
V.
To destroy arms, however, is not enough. We must create even as we
destroy -- creating world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw
world-wide war and weapons. In the world we seek, the United Nations
Emergency Forces which have been hastily assembled, uncertainly
supplied and inadequately financed will never be enough.
Therefore, the United States recommends that all member nations
earmark special peace-keeping units in their armed forces to be on
call of the United Nations to be specially trained and quickly available --
and with advance provision for financial and logistic support.
In addition, the American delegation will suggest a series of steps to
improve the United Nation's machinery for the peaceful settlement of
disputes for on-the-spot fact-finding, mediation and adjudication
for extending the rule of international law. For peace is not solely a
matter of military or technical problems it is primarily a problem
of
politics and people. And unless man can match his strides in weaponry
and technology with equal strides in social and political development, our
great strength, like that of the dinosaur, will become incapable of proper
control and like the dinosaur vanish from the earth,
VI.
As we extend the rule of law on earth, so must we also extend it to man's
new domain: outer space.
All of us salute the brave cosmonauts of the Soviet Union. The new
horizons of outer space must not be driven by the old bitter concepts of
imperialism and sovereign claims. The cold reaches of the universe
must not become the new arena of an even colder war.
more
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