News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
In your May 15th issue, I read the following statement as part of "A Protest by Junior Members of the Harvard Faculty against the Resumption and Continuation of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing by the U.S.":
We believe...that even given the impossibility of such [underground] detection, the government has not shown cause why we could not sign a treaty banning all tests universally recognized to be detectable by existing ("national") systems--that is, atmospheric tests and underground tests above a certain yield.
In order to set the record straight on what appears to be a crucial misconception, I would live to quote from a diplomatic note reprinted in the New York Times, September 4, 1961 (after the first Soviet atmospheric explosion):
...The president of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom propose to Chairman Khrushchev that their governments agree, effective immediately, not to conduct nuclear tests which take place in the atmosphere and produce radio-active fallout...
They point out that with regard to atmospheric testing the United States and the United Kingdom are prepared to rely upon existing means of detection, which they believe to be adequate and are not suggesting additional controls... Pierre C. Hohenberg, Tutor in Physics.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.