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The United Nations already is planning a conference on the environment in 

 1972. I pledge the strongest support of the United States for that effort. I hope 

 that even before then we can launch new national and international initiatives 

 toward restoring the balance of nature and maintaining our world as a healthy 

 and hospitable place for man. 



Of all man's great enterprises, none lends itself more logically or more eom- 

 pellingly to international cooperation than the venture into space. * * * We are 

 just beginning to comprehend the benefits that space technology can yield here on 

 earth. And the potential is enormous. 



For example, we now are developing earth resource survey satellites, with the 

 first experimental satellite to be launched sometime early in the decade of the 

 seventies. 



Present indications are that these satellites should be capable of yielding data 

 which could assist in as widely varied tasks as these : the location of schools of 

 fish in the oceans, the location of mineral deposits on land, and the health of agri- 

 cultural crops. * * * We shall be putting several proposals in this respect before 

 the United Nations. 28 



Columnist James Reston epitomized the matter : "The New Science 

 has created a New Diplomacy." 29 



In summary, science and technology have effected changes in the 

 substantive tasks of foreign policy, in the methodology of diplomacy, 

 in the management of information on which diplomacy is based, in the 

 intellectual training of diplomats, in the range of present options of 

 negotiators, and in the prospects for future evolution of diplomacy, 

 foreign policy objectives, and the international political system. 

 Science and technology cannot be mere disciplines added to the cur- 

 riculum of Foreign Service Officers, or services to be rendered by an 

 appointed officer or unit of country teams. On the contrary, they are 

 an essential and major ingredient of many aspects of foreign policy, 

 diplomatic relations, and international behavior. The need is clearly 

 evident for improved understanding of the underlying and future 

 significance of scientific and technological developments and their 

 relation to basic patterns in the formulation and conduct of interna- 

 tional policy. 



Accordingly, Chairman Clement J. Zablocki of the House Commit- 

 tee on International Relations and its Subcommittee on International 

 Security and Scientific Affairs (acting as chairman of the latter, then 

 named the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific 

 Developments) , in a letter of September 1969 to the Director of the 

 Legislative Service, called for this study in the following terms: 



Hearings held by the Sul)eommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific 

 Developments during the past year while I have been Chairman have convinced 

 me of the pressing need for greater coordination between science and diplomacy 

 if the United States is to conduct a successful foreign policy. Time after time the 

 Subcommittee has been told of scientific and technological developments with 

 significant international ramifications, for which little or no policy planning 

 has been done. 



The current conditions cannot continue if the United States is to maintain a 

 posture of resi>onsible leadership in international affairs. We must begin to 

 do the hard thinking necessary to bring our technical abilities and our diplomatic 

 skills into concert. 



28 U.S. President (Richard Nixon). "Strengthening the Total Fabric of Pence." Address 

 made before the "4th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the United Nations, NY., 

 on Sept. 18, 1!m;9. Department of State Bulletin (October C, 1969), p. 301. 



™New York Times (Sunday, Dec. 13, 1964), p. 8E. 



