Dream-World Treaties

The Test Ban Treaty: Military, Technological and Political Implications, by James Hubert McBride. Regnery, $5.75

KOSYGIN AND BREZHNEV and a lot of other people insist on calling it the Treaty of Moscow. McBride is content to go along with those over here who pass it off as the Test Ban Treaty. Whatever it’s called, McBride sees the Treaty as an exercise in “good-guyism” on our part, and he reminds us where good guys finish. Over four years have now passed since this proudest achievement of the Kennedy Administration. McBride recalls how, back then, the agreement was hailed as that first step on a long journey and the foundation on which Soviet-American understanding would grow. We were told we were cooperating with Moscow to save the world from nuclear holocaust; we were told the Treaty showed the critics that the Soviet Union would cooperate, after all, and more agreements might follow.

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The Test Ban Treaty: Military, Technological and Political Implications, by James Hubert McBride. Regnery, $5.75

KOSYGIN AND BREZHNEV and a lot of other people insist on calling it the Treaty of Moscow. McBride is content to go along with those over here who pass it off as the Test Ban Treaty. Whatever it’s called, McBride sees the Treaty as an exercise in “good-guyism” on our part, and he reminds us where good guys finish. Over four years have now passed since this proudest achievement of the Kennedy Administration. McBride recalls how, back then, the agreement was hailed as that first step on a long journey and the foundation on which Soviet-American understanding would grow. We were told we were cooperating with Moscow to save the world from nuclear holocaust; we were told the Treaty showed the critics that the Soviet Union would cooperate, after all, and more agreements might follow.