More Soviet Tests?

While the U.S. is trying to work out with Soviet negotiators at Geneva a nuclear test ban with a foulproof inspection system, are the Russians going ahead with tests of various kinds and sizes to see how much test-ban evasion they could get away with?

Fact No. 1: A few days after the Geneva test-ban conference started, the U.S. detected and announced two "low yield" Russian explosions at a new test location deep in southern Russia--although the U.S. had suspended its own nuclear tests for a one-year trial period on condition that the Soviet Union do the same (TIME, Nov. 17).

Fact No. 2: Last week, as the Geneva conference limped along, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles hinted at his press conference that the U.S. had detected additional Soviet tests since October's end. "There is some slight evidence at least," he said, "that there may have been more tests than the two which were definitely identified, picked up and announced by us."

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