During this time in negotiations the British and the United States Governments informed the Soviet Union on August 22 1958 of their willingness to suspend nuclear tests for one year from the start of the Geneva negotiations for one year, but the Soviet union Government rejected the proposal and alleged that the British and United States were trying to achieve unilateral military superiority over the Soviet Union (Keesing 1972)
Despite the lack of agreement from the Soviet Union the United States and Britain did suspend tests, meanwhile the Soviet Union tested until November 3 1958 then agreed to not resume testing provided the Western Powers did not do so.
The Geneva negotiations had been in progress for fourteen months without satisfactory agreements. The Soviet Government announced on August 31 1961 that the would be resuming tests, stating that the United States and Britain were stalling during the Geneva negotiations while their partner, France, had become a nuclear power. They also said that they, the Soviet Union could not disregard the possibility of aggression towards the U.S.S.R (Keesing 1972).
On September 5 after the Soviet Union carried out three nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, the United States resumed testing underground with no fall-out. Except in the Communist countries the Soviet Unions tests aroused worldwide concern, particularly in view of radioactive fall-out. January 1 1963 became a target date for a thirty-seven-nation resolution, which condemned all nuclear tests and urged the United States, Soviet Union and the British Governments to settle the remaining differences between them in order to achieve an agreement on the cessation of nuclear testing. It was also proposed that the three governments should take as their basis an eight- nation joint memorandum presented in April 1962 at the Geneva Conference. It included an eighteen-nation Disarmament Committee, which constituted an attempt to find a middle ground between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union positions at Geneva.