MT
If war were ever to start you could never rely on any such assurance. If you get even a conventional war started—conventional war is terrible, even if there were no nuclear weapons—the knowledge of how to make them is there and there would be a race to make them. The great thing about equal possession of nuclear weapons is that they've prevented all wars.
Alastair Burnet, ITN
Is there a part that a British initiative can play in this?
MT
I think our best part to play is constant consultation with the United States and our allies and they are very good, we are in very close consultation with the United States about this. But in the end the main and first negotiations have got to take place between the United States and the Soviet Union.