ALLIED PLAN DISARMAMENT AT A GLANCE SOVIET BLOC PLAN

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Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 'LILT E? PLAN DISARMAMENT AT A GLLNCE SOVI$r BLOC PLAN State Dept. review completed Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 Disarmament is recognized as the most important problem facing the world today. It is, as well, one of the most complex. This brief summary has beeA 'prepared to set in perspective the positions of the Allied Powers and the Soviet Bloc on various aspects of the arms limitation and control problem. -The summary covers these positions as they stood on March 15, 1960 when negotiations commenced at Geneva within the Ten Nation* Disarmament Conference. *Allied Nations: United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Italy. Soviet Bloc Nations: USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania. Approved For. Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 ALLIED "The ultimate goal is a secure, free, and peace- ful world in which there shall be general disarmament under effective international control and agreed procedures for the settlement of disputes in accord- ance with the principles of the U. N. Charter." "After carefully considering the present inter- national situation and the experience of earlier disarmament negotiations, the Government of the Soviet Union has come to the conclusion that the best means of solving the disarmament problem, which is the chief international problem of our time, is complete and general disarmament by all States." Approved For Release 2003/05/06 :CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 FIRST STAGE Joint Study to provide a basis for assuring compliance with an agreement to discontinue production of nuclear weapons. A similar study to assure com- pliance with an agreement to transfer existing nuclear weapons to non-weapons uses. SOVIET BLOC _UM STAGE No specific measures. SECOND STAGE Agreement to cease production of nuclear weapons immediately upon the establishment of effective controls to verify compliance (conditional upon satisfactory progress in the reduction of conventional armed forces). A similar agreement to transfer fissionable material from existing weapons stocks in agreed quantities upon the establishment of effective controls to verify compliance. Further agreements to prohibit production of nuclear, chemical, biological and other weapons of mass destruction and to reduce existing stocks of such weapons to achieve the final elimination of these weapons. SECOND STAGE No specific measures. THIRD STAGE Agreement on the destruction of all types of nuclear weapons. Agreement on a prohibition of production, possession and storage of chemical and bacteriological weapons. The destruction of all stocks of these weapons under international super- visiono Approved For Release 2003/05/06 :ICIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES AND ARMAMENTS ATJ;EED FIRST STAGE Agreement on collection of information on levels of all armed forces and quantities of armaments based on a unilateral declaration of states on an agreed basis. Agreement on initial force levels of 2.5 million for the U. S. and U. S. S. R. and appropriate levels for certain other states. FIRST STAGE Agreement on reductions of armed force levels of 1.7 million for the U. S.9 U. S. S. R. and Communist China,, and 6509000 for the U. K. and'France. Reductions of armed force levels of other stages to be agreed at special U. N. General Assembly or world conference. Agreement on reductions of armaments to correspond to force levels fixed for armed forces. Agreement on storage in internationally super- vised depots of certain types and quantities of armaments so that armaments placed in depots bear an agreed relation to agreed force level ceilings. SECOND STAGE Agreement on force levels of 2.1 million for the U. S. and U. S. S. R. and appropriate levels for all other militarily significant states to be determined by a conference of such states to be carried out simultaneously with the establishing of inspection and verification measures. SECOND STAGE Agreement on the complete disbandment of all remaining armed forces. Agreement on the elimination of-all military bases on territories of foreign states. Agreement to place in storage depots agreed types and .quantities of armaments in agreed. relationship to force level ceilings. THIRD STAGE Further agreement on reduction of national armed forces and armaments by progressive safeguarded steps (after such further joint studies as may be necessary) to levels required by internal security and fulfillment of obligations under the United Nations Charter to the end that no single nation or group of nations can effectively oppose enforcement of international law. THIRD STAGE Agreement on the abolishment of _all military institutions, courses; and organizations. Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : PIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 ALLIED FIRST STAGE Agreement on prior notification to the interna- tional control organization of proposed launchings of space vehicles. Joint study to provide a basis for assuring that no nation shall place into orbit or station in outer space weapons of mass destruction. SECOND STAGE Agreement on prohibiting the placing into orbit or stationing in outer space vehicles capable of mass destruction immediately upon the establishment of adequate controls to assure compliance. THIRD STAGE Further agreements on measures to ensure the use of outer space for peaceful purposes only. SOVIET BLOC FIRST STAGE No specific measure. SECOND STAGE No specific measures. THIRD STAGE No specific measures. Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : Cl -RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 SOVIET BLOC FIRST STAGE Joint study to provide a basis for assuring prior notification of missile launchings and declarations to the international control organi- zation of the locations of manufacture and location of launching sites. SECOND STAGE Agreement on prior warning of launching of missiles and declarations of the locations of manufacture and launching sites with agreed veri- fication including provision for on-site inspec- tions of launching sites. THIRD STAGE Further agreements on control of production of military missiles and existing national stocks and their final elimination. FIRST STAGE No specific measures. SECOND STAGE No specific measures. THE STAGE Agreement on the destruction of all types of missiles. Approved For Release 2003/05/061: CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 SOVIET BIDC FIRST STAGE Joint study to provide a basis for agreed measures to give participating states protection from the danger of surprise attack. FIRST STAGE No specific measures. SECOND STAGE Agreement on appropriate measures to give participating states protection against surprise attack including aerial inspection, ground obser- vers, overlapping radar, notification of aircraft flights and appropriate coumunicationsa THIRD STAGE No specific measures. SECOND STAGE No specific measures. THIRD STAGE No specific measures. NOTE: The Soviet proposal states that if the Allied Powers are not ready to embark on the measures out- lined by the Soviet Union for complete and general disarmament, the Soviet Union would consider certain partial measures which would include "conclusion of an agreement on the prevention of surprise attack by one state upon another". Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 ALLI FIPM STAGE Agreement on the establishment of an International Disarmament Organization (IDO) to be progressively expanded as disarmament measures are agreed. Arrangements made to provide a basis for developing and strengthening international machinery to preserve world peace and security within the framework of the UN. SECOND STAGE Arrangements further developed for the strengthening of the International Disarmament Organization and international machinery to preserve world peace and security within the framework of the UN. SOVIET UIOC FAT STAGE No specific measures SECOND STAGE No specific measures Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release-2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 ENIMO ITCH inued ) THIRD STAGE Final development and strengthening of international machinery to preserve world peace and security within the framework of the United Nations. THIRD STAGE No specific measures. NOTES The Soviet proposal states: "For the purpose of supervising the implementa- tion of the measures of general and complete disarmament, an international control organ shall be established. The extent of the control and inspection exercised shall correspond to the stage reached in the phased disarmament of States. Upon the completion of general and complete disarmament, which shall include the disbandment of all services of the armed forces and the destruction of all types of weapons, including weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, rocket, chemical, bacteriological), the international control organ shall have free-access to all objects `of control. The control organization may institute a system of aerial observation and aerial photography over the territories of States." Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80BO1676R000800090050-2 Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2 SOVIKr BIDC MILITARY BUDGKrS P vis on is made in all three stages of the .Allied Plan for measures to verify military expendi- tures beginning in the first stage with unilateral declarations by states of the amount of such expenditures and concluded in the third stage with the establishment of effective controls over military budgets. MILITARY BLTDGErS Provision is made in the third stage of the Soviet Bloc Plan for "the appropriation of funds for military purposes in any form, whether from State budgets or from public organizations, shall be discontinued. The funds made available as a result of the implementation of general and complete disarmament shall be used to reduce or abolish taxation of the population, to subsidize national economics and to furnish extensive economic and technical assistance to under-developed countries." Office of Public Services, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State, Washington 25, D.C. April 4, 1960. Approved For Release 2003/05/06 : CIA-RDP80B01676R000800090050-2