United States policy at the United Nations with respect to the regulation of armaments and collective security: the international control of atomic energy; regulation of conventional armaments; efforts toward agreements placing armed forces at the disposal of the Security Council 1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1946, vol. i, pp. 7121109. For documentation on aspects of United States policy with, respect to atomic energy other than international control, see pp. 781 ff. For documentation on United States national security policy, see pp. 707 ff. For documentation on the attitude of the Soviet Union concerning regulation of armaments, see vol. iv, pp. 514 ff., passim. For information on U.S. policy regarding international control of atomic energy, see Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield, 1947–1952, volume I of A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969). For an informal summary record of policy developments concerning international control of atomic energy, October 15, 1946, to May 17, 1948, see Department of State Publication 3161, The International Control of Atomic Energy: Policy at the Crossroads (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1948). Regarding efforts toward agreements placing armed forces at the disposal of the Security Council, see Department of State Bulletin, August 3, 1947, Supplement, “Arming the United Nations.”


[285] Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. R. Gordon Arneson

Department of State Atomic Energy Files


[288] The Secretary of State to the Embassy in tJie United Kingdom

501.BC Atomic/6–1147: Telegram


[290] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Atomic/6–1947: Telegram


[291] Plan of Work Approved by the Commission for Conventional Armaments, June 18, 1947

Department of State Disarmament Files


[293] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Atomic/6–2147: Telegram


[294] The Secretary of State to the Embassy in London

501.BC Atomic/6–1947: Telegram


[295] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Atomic/6–2247: Telegram


[297] The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom

501.BC Atomic/6–2247: Telegram


[299] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Atomic/6–2947: Telegram


[302] The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom

501.BC/7–147: Telegram


[308] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC/7–847: Telegram


[312] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Atomic/7–947: Telegram


[314] The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Douglas ) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Atomic/7–1147: Telegram

  1. Lot 64D563, files of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, 1947–1953.