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For documentation on United States national security policy, including estimates of threats to the national security and the possibility of global war, see pp. 1 ff. For documentation on foreign policy aspects of U.S. development of atomic energy, including material on relations with the United Kingdom and Canada respecting exchange of information and allocation of resources, see pp. 685 ff. For documentation on the international control of atomic energy, see pp. 443 ff.

For documentation on possible use of atomic weapons in the Korean War, see volume vii . For information of relevance to the present compilation, see documentation on NATO in volume iii, and documentation on Yugoslavia in volume iv. Documentation on U.S. political-military relations with the United Kingdom is also presented ibid. For documentation on aspects of U.S.-Canadian defense arrangements, see vol. ii, pp. 870 ff.

For documentation on U.S. policy in 1950 with respect to the use of atomic weapons, see Foreign Relations, 1950, vol. i, pp. 126 ff.; ibid., vol. iii, pp. 1598 ff.; and ibid., volume vii .

See also Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield, 1947–1952: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, vol. ii (University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969), and Margaret M. Gowing, Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945–1952, 2 vols. (London, Macmillan, 1974).


[312] Memorandum by Mr. R. Gordon Arneson to the Secretary of State

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[313] The Secretary of Defense (Lovett) to the Secretary of State

742.5/11–551


[317] The Secretary of State to the Secretary of Defense (Lovett)

700.5611/12–1951