As summer ended and it became a question of going before the Senate with the treaty, the Administration was far from confident about congressional support (later the 80-19 vote would imply that it had been a piece of cake all along; the truth was that the balance had seemed quite fragile at the start, and a vote near the two thirds needed for ratification was really no victory; it was almost an incitement to enemies as much as a change in the Cold War).
Limited test ban treaty
