ABSTRACT
The US and Soviet positions on disarmament were fashioned through bilateral negotiations and participation in the United Nations. In the early months of the Kennedy Administration, the United States and Soviet Union "agreed to recommend" a set of common principles to guide future negotiation. They agreed "to call upon other States to cooperate in reaching early agreement on general and complete disarmament in a peaceful world in accordance with these principles." To implement control over and inspection of disarmament, an International Disarmament Organization including all parties to the agreement should be created within the framework of the United Nations. This International Disarmament Organization and its inspectors should be assured unrestricted access without veto to all places as necessary for the purpose of effective verification. If there were good-faith undertaking of disarmament, during which disagreements about implementation arose, the mechanisms would exist to air the dispute and subject it to inspectors' findings.
