Excerpt from The Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 40: January-June, 1959The United States regrets that the approach of the ussr. Was to deal with this question on a political basis and to bypass the technical facts which need to be considered. This was not in keeping with Prime Minister Khrushchev's letter of July 2, 1958 to President Eisenhower2 which agreed on the desirability of a joint study of the practical aspects of the surprise attack problem. The introduction of political issues and proposals can only serve to prevent the achievement of the objectives of a meeting of experts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.