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293. Agreement Between the United States and the United Kingdom 1

Undated.

AGREEMENT FOR PRIOR CONSULTATION ABOUT NEW PROPOSALS REGARDING NUCLEAR TESTS

The President and the Prime Minister agreed that the issue by them on March 25, 1957, of an Agreed Statement about their voluntary intention to continue to exercise restraint in carrying out nuclear test explosions2 was made without otherwise affecting the understanding that the U.K. will not put forward proposals on the limitation of tests without consulting the United States and the United States will not put forward new proposals for the cessation of the production of fissionable material for weapons or propose the complete cessation of tests without consulting the United Kingdom.

  1. Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181, CF 868. Secret. This agreement presumably grew out of the discussion on March 22; see Document 275.↩
  2. For text of the U.S.–U.K. statement on test limitations, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1957, p. 633.↩