152. Editorial Note
The Geneva Test Ban Conference adjourned without further progress on January 29, 1962. On February 2 the Department of State informed posts in Europe that the “breakdown of nuclear test ban talks should not be interpreted as anything more than US unwillingness continue indefinitely with talks which Soviet rejection of concept of international control had made devoid of content.” For text of the message, transmitted in telegram Topol 1110 to the U.S. Mission to NATO, see Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, volume VII, page 311.