During some of the most tense years of the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower tried to negotiate a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. Ike said of nuclear weapons, "it's an expensive business. And it could be finally more dangerous than ever, merely because of the spreading of this knowledge and this know-how."
organized a suspension of nuclear tests, along with the Soviets, in the final years of his administration. This move was considered risky, with no treaty and functioning monitoring system to detect cheating. But we survived.
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