117. Editorial Note
The Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee held two sessions at Geneva in 1966—January 27-May 10 and June 14-August 25. President Johnson’s message, which was read to the conference by U.S. Representative William C. Foster on January 27, proposed a seven-point program: (1) a nuclear nonproliferation treaty; (2) application of International Atomic Energy Agency or equivalent international safeguards to transfers of nuclear materials for peaceful purposes to nonnuclear states; (3) strengthening international security arrangements for nonnuclear states; (4) a verified halt in fissionable materials production for weapons along with demonstrated destruction of nuclear weapons and transfer of their nuclear materials to peaceful purposes; (6) a freeze on numbers and characteristics of offensive and defensive strategic nuclear delivery vehicles; and (7) halts in regional conventional arms races. For text, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966, Book I, pp. 92-94.
The Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee did not reach agreement on these matters during the period under review. Its report covering the period January 27-August 25, 1966, was issued as U.N. document A/6390.