PRESIDENT KENNEDY TO ADDRESS THE NATION ON TEST BAN TREATY
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On July 26, 1963, Associated Press reports that President John F. Kennedy will speak on national radio and television tonight in an effort "to whip up support for a nuclear test ban treaty*."
The treaty was initialed yesterday in Moscow and is heralded as a "major break in the cold war**."
The President's address tonight begins an effort by the Kennedy administration to convince critics that ending nuclear tests in outer space, atmosphere and under water "will not endanger United States security."
*The Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed on August 5, 1963 in Moscow by Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko & British Foreign Secretary Lord Home.
**Cold War (1947-1991) a period of political & economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
SOURCES
"Kennedy Talk Set Tonight on New Treaty," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," JFK Presidential Library and Museum, www.jfklibrary.org/
