The Urgency Is Greater

As this issue is being completed, it appears that the Kennedy Administration has finally decided to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere. This decision, leaked to the press after the Kennedy-MacMillan meeting in Bermuda, is to be carried out in the Spring.

It is a catastrophic decision, a terrible mistake, and we believe that all liberals and radicals should occupy themselves in the coming months trying to bring public pressure on the Administration to change its course. For the only consequences of this decision are to intensify the nuclear arms race, to increase the danger to mankind that results from fall-out, to magnify the hysteria which prevents a peaceful resolution of issues, and to enlarge the threat of an “acci...