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Information about several hightlights of the summit meeting on disarmament issues in Geneva, Switzerland is presented. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower learned the effort of the West and the East to come up with a workable way to survive in the H-bomb age. Geneva convinced Eisenhower on the plan of Moscow to restrain Red China from reckless adventures. All disarmament proposals were passed on to the permanent disarmament committee of the United Nations.

Information about the Strategy for Peace Conference held in Harriman, New York on June 11, 1960 is presented. Improvement of disarmament policy is discussed as technological revolution for weapons has threatened national security of Western societies. Investments amounting to 100 million dollars for arms control contracts are being planned by the Defense Department.

The article reports on the arms equality demanded by the Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler in October 1933, who threatened to leave the League of Nations and walked out of the Disarmament Conference. It says that the moves of Germany sent German bonds down and created a demand for munitions stocks. According to the author, it is generally felt abroad that Hitler planned the move as part of a domestic strategy. The informal negotiations encouraged by Premier Benito Mussolini are also discussed.

The article provides an outlook for international affairs of interest to the business community in 1950. The U.S. State Department is reportedly planning to remove all speculation about the possibility of a world disarmament conference. London, England and Paris, France are said to be concerned about U.S. aid for southeast Asia. The British Labor party is targeting the middle-class vote in its campaign.

The article reports on the efforts of Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev to encourage U.S. President John F. Kennedy to make a summit in 1962 out of the 18-nation disarmament negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. Although Kennedy rejected the proposal for making the summit, he also informs Khrushchev he would personally attend the disarmament conference unless and until their is a real progress that has been developed. The author cites the possibility that the Soviet Primier may try to persuade Kennedy to go to Geneva.

The author emphasizes that the United Nations (UN) Second Special Assembly on Disarmament forum, which will start in New York on June 6, 1982, is not expected to be of practical importance.

The article offers information on the two arms control talks in Geneva, Switzerland. It states that the U.S., Soviet Union, and Great Britain are making a real progress to conclude a treaty, wherein the Russians were assured by the U.S. that its nuclear explosions' projected series will be used only in perfecting the ways of small underground blast detection. It mentions that in the conference on general disarmament, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev unwrapped a package of disarmament proposals.