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...U.S.S.R. combined open and covert support for Western antinuclear movements with loud reminders of its ability to destroy any nation that foolishly hosted American bases. NATO leaders resisted the Rapacki Plan but had immediately to deal with a March 1958 Soviet offer to suspend all nuclear testing provided the West did the same. Throughout the 1950s growing data on the harmful effects of...
Polish socialist who joined the communists after World War II and who, as minister of foreign affairs, was noted for his “Rapacki Plan” for an atom-bomb-free zone in Europe.
...The following year he was appointed director of the Legal and Treaties Department of the Foreign Ministry, a post he held until 1960. In that year he became legal adviser to Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki and played a central role in the development of the “Rapacki Plan” for making central Europe a nuclear-free zone. Lachs was a delegate to most General Assembly sessions through...
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