§ 63. Dr. A. Thompsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will recommend to the Ten-Power Disarmament Committee that, in the first stage of disarmament, States having at their disposal nuclear weapons shall undertake not to transfer such weapons or information necessary for their manufacture to States which do not possess such weapons, and that States possessing 87W no nuclear weapons shall undertake to refrain from the manufacture of such weapons.
§ Mr. R. AllanOur attitude to the hon. Gentleman's suggestion is shown by the support we gave to the resolution on the spread of nuclear weapons passed at the last session of the United Nations General Assembly—on which, incidentally, the Soviet Union abstained. This resolution drew attention to the danger of the spread of nuclear weapons and suggested that the Ten Power Committee on Disarmament should consider the possibility of an international agreement to prevent it.