NUCLEAR TEST TALKS

SECRET 23 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY 16 April 1959 (b)(1) [b][3] [S] NUCLEAR TEST TALKS Soviet delegate Tsarapkin, at the Geneva nuclear test talks which resumed on 13 April after a three-week recess, in- dicated distress and alarm in his initial reaction to the new American proposal for a phased approach to a test ban, begin- ning with a cessation of at- mospheric and underwater tests. He said this proposal bears out the USSR's "worst apprehensions" concerning the outcome of the tal...