Disarmament: Till Next Time

Despite barking guns from Viet Nam to Kashmir, the seven-week summer session of the disarmament delegates in Geneva wound up last week in a burst of cocktail conviviality. To be sure, the report to the U.N. would, as usual, read "no progress." Russia was as unwilling as ever to provide the on-site inspection rights that the U.S. demands to guarantee an underground nuclear test ban. And Washington could hardly have cut loose the last, frayed mooring to MLF and Bonn's hopes for nuclear sharing in NATO in the middle of West Germany's...

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