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It is perfectly conceivable that a resumption of atmospheric tests may, at some point in the future, be necessary and even justifiable.

But a resumption does not seem justifiable now.

What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests had radically increased our own moral obligations.

We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.

This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.