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October 10, 1963

Memorandum of Conversation between President Kennedy and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 'Non-Dissemination and the MLF'

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In this conversation, President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko discussed the Soviet attitude toward the MLF. Gromyko argued that it would be a barrier to a nonproliferation agreement. Kennedy made the standard argument that “one of the reasons for an MLF was to make it less possible for the Germans to press for nuclear weapons of their own.”


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JFKL, NSF, box 187, USSR, Gromyko Talks, President. Contributed to NPIHP by Bill Burr.

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2018-06-08

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Memorandum of Conversation

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177767

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Secret

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