Report of the Delegation of the United States Concerning Technical Working Group II of the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests.

The article presents the report of the American Delegation concerning the Technical Working Group II of the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests held on November 24, 1959 in Geneva, Switzerland. Under the terms of reference agreed upon, the Technical Working Group shall consider the question of the use of objective instrument readings in connection with the selection of an event which cannot be identified by the international control organ and which could be suspected of being nuclear explosion, in order to determine a basis for initiating on-site inspections.