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days earlier prime minister nehru hadelegram to Ar3 s. outt in moscow asking him to protest to the soviet government on the soviet nuclear tests. nehru instructed dutt to make it CLEAR that he considered soviet talk about their national security wasretext for initiating the tests, since no conceivable problems of soviet security can justify the explosions. nehru voiced his distress that the soviet government had taken no notice whatever of. appeal to stop testing, and expressed his fear that the result of the soviet tests woulo be the initiation of atmospheric testing by other powers.
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ANO IS NOT "MEASURING BY TWOAIVE BLACK-ANO-WHITE APPROACH OF THE AMERICAN PRESS WHICH DISTORTED IHE BASIC BALANCE IN INDIA'S POSITION. INDIA HAD OPPOSED BOTH. AND THE SOVIET RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED NATIONS, BUT THE AMERICj PRESS SINGLED OUT ONLY THE. MOVE. NEHRU'S KEY AIM IS TO STOP FURTHER ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION BY ANY POSSIBLE MEANS, AND HE CANN BE CONVINCED THAT THE INDIAN RESOLUTION FOR AN INTERIM MORATORIUM WIL IN ITSELF HOLD UP NEGOTIATIONSUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY.
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