Unless the United States and the Soviet Union reach an agreement to stop testing antisatellite weapons and reach it soon. each side will within a short time have the capacity to shoot down the others satellites and in the process to poke out the eyes and blind the effective intelligence capability of the other side. And. Mr. President. when I say blind. I mean blind. Oh sure. we could secure scattered reports from refugees. from espionage agents. from radio eavesdropping. and from careful scrutiny of the meager and often unreliable data published by the Soviets about their military activity. We could determine what the Soviets want us to determine about their nuclear weapons buildup. But any effective kind of arms control verification would be virtually impossible.
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