Policy of the United States With Respect to Atomic Energy and the Regulation of Armaments; President Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” Proposal of December 8, 1953; Other Foreign Policy Aspects of U.S. Development of Atomic Energy1

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Continued from Foreign Relations, 1951, vol. i, pp. 443 ff. and 685 ff. For documentation on U.S. national security policy, see pp. 1 ff. Documentation on discussions with the United Kingdom and Canada concerning the threat of general war with the Soviet Union is scheduled for publication in volume vi. For additional documentation on nuclear weapons strategy, see vol. V, Part 1, pp. 482 ff.

For extensive additional information on U.S. atomic energy policy, see Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield, 1947–1952: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, volume ii (University Park, Pa., The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969).


[215] Memorandum by Gerard C. Smith to the Secretary of State

Atomic Energy Files, lot 57 D 688, “IAEA Policies”


[220] Memorandum by the Federal Civil Defense Administrator (Peterson) to the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council (Lay)

Eisenhower Library, “Project ‘Clean Up’, AEC–Nuclear Testing”


[226] The Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Strauss) to the Special Assistant to the President (Cutler)

S/PNSC files, lot 62 D 1, “Atomic Energy—Cooperation”


[229] Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council (Lay)

Disarmament files, lot 58 D 133, “NSC Papers, 1953–1955”


[234] The Secretary of State to the United States Mission at the United Nations

330.13/7–1954: Telegram


[235] Department of State Press Release No. 434

330.13/8–1054


[238] National Security Council Report

S/SNSC files, lot 63 D 351, NSC 5431 Series


[239] Minutes of the Meeting of the Operations Coordinating Board, August 18, 1954

Atomic Energy files, lot 57 D 688, “OCB General, 1953–58”


[240] Memorandum Prepared in the Department of State

Atomic Energy files, lot 57 D 688, “IAEA—Policy”