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dated August 5, 1958: Nuclear tests

Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Prime Minister, has told Canon L.J. Collins, British Chairman of the Movement for Nuclear Disarmament, in a letter: “We hope that common sense must eventually prevail and that nuclear weapon tests will be terminated everywhere”, the Soviet news agency, Tass, reported on August 2. Tass said that Mr. Collins had sent Mr. Khrushchev a letter expressing his alarm over reports that the talks about the control and supervision of Hydrogen Bomb tests may be discontinued. Mr. Khrushchev said, “The time has come to put an end to a situation in which the health and lives of people are being subjected to constant danger.”

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