254. Editorial Note
On January 7, 1963, Chairman Khrushchev sent another message to President Kennedy on the question of nuclear testing. Khrushchev noted that the President’s December 28 message did not object to Khrushchev’s emphasis in his December 19 letter to the President “that the basis for control over the implementation of an agreement to ban underground nuclear tests should be national means of detection in conjunction with automatic seismic stations,” and he further elaborated on his earlier suggestion on the locations for the placement of automatic seismic stations in the Soviet Union. He also reaffirmed his willingness to accept two or three annual inspections in aseismic as well as seismic areas. Taking up the President’s suggestion that the two nations’ disarmament representatives should meet to conduct a technical review of the problems the President raised in his message, Khrushchev indicated that he had designated Nikolay T. Fedorenko, Soviet Representative to the United Nations, and Semen K. Tsarapkin, Soviet Representative to the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee, to meet with ACDA Director Foster in New York. For text of Khrushchev’s letter, see Documents on Disarmament, 1963, pages 1-5, and volume VI, Document 91.