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23 August, 1967.

hear fafenor hedevbag,

Thank you for sending me the copy of your article
on a treaty proposal on germ warfare. I found our
discussion of this subject one evening during the recent
Conference most interesting. I agree that, for the
reasons given in your article, disarmament measures ought
to be more easy to take in this field. But I fear that
the requirements of inspection are beyond that which
there is any possibility of the Soviet Union accepting,
and an arrangement without adequate inspection would be
unacceptable, as I imagine, to the United states. The
close surveillance of declared activities would not be
popular, but the inspection of suspected but undeclared
activities would present even greater difficulties. In
connection with the discontinuance of underground nuclear
tests, the Soviet Union is not prepared to have a small
but effective number of seismic events inspected, where
the requirement of a pre-existing seismic event gives
protection to the state under inspection against the use
of inspections for espionage purposes; it seems to me
much less likely that they would be willing to allow
even spot-check inspections intended to confirm or dis-
prove suspicions of illegal preparations for biological
warfare. I wish I could be less pessimistic and more
encouraging, but nothing in the international scene,
wnether in the field of disarmament or elsewhere, seems
to me to justify any other view.

I enjoyed the Conference at Stanford very much and
found the account of practical scientific work in the
field of Outer Space most interesting. It was parti-
cularly pleasant to see something of Csiifornia, since
I had never been there before; returning to New York,

one regrets the change.
Youn erucerely )
H.G Dayne

CH. ¢ Darwin)

Professor Joshua Lederberg,
300 Pasteur Drive,
Palo Alto,
California 94304.