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

1.

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).


[241] Memorandum for the File, by the Consultant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs (Smith)

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


[242] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Consultant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs (Smith)

Atomic Energy files, lot 57 D 668, “IAEA Policies”


[244] Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (Key)

Eisenhower Library, Dulles papers, “Atomic Weapons”


[245] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (Key)

Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation, lot 64 D 199


[246] The Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Strauss) to the President

Eisenhower Library, Whitman file, “AEC


[250] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bohlen) to the Department of State

600.0012/9–2254: Telegram


[252] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bohlen) to the Department of State

600.0012/9–2354: Telegram


[253] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bohlen) to the Department of State

600.0012/9–2454: Telegram


[254] The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State

600.0012/9–2454: Telegram


[258] Memorandum for the Files

Eisenhower Library, C.D. Jackson papers


[261] Memorandum for the File, by the Consultant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs (Smith)

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


[263] The United States Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the Department of State

600.0012/10–1554: Telegram


[264] The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in France

330.13/10–654: Telegram


[265] The Ambassador in France (Dillon) to the Department of State

330.13/10–1854: Telegram


[267] Summary of Discussion in the NSC Planning Board Meeting of October 18, 1954

S/PNSC files, lot 62 D 1, NSC 112


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

600.0012/10–1554: Telegram


[270] Draft Memorandum by the Consultant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs (Smith)

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