Khrushchev thanks BR for his letter and the main reports of the Second Pugwash Conference, noting the significance of the Conference's documents.

"In this connection I should like to note that the Soviet government, fully realizing its responsibility for its part in the fate of the world, and trying to facilitate the removal of the threat of atomic war and to promote strengthening of peace, has decided to stop unilaterally the tests of all kinds of nuclear weapons as the first practical step toward this goal, in the hope that other countries which possess atomic weapons will follow this example. Unfortunately, other powers up till now have not supported this initiative."