Office of the Historian

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).

[61] United States Atomic Energy Commission Press Release

Washington, November 16, 1952.

G/PM files, lot 68 D 349, “Ivy”

[62] Report Prepared by Howard Meyers of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs

[Washington,] November 26, 1952.

Disarmament files, lot 58 D 133, “Chron”

[64] Memorandum of Conversation, by Bernhard G. Bechhoefer

[New York,] December 5, 1952.

Disarmament files, lot 58 D 133, “Chron”

[65] Notes of a Meeting in the Office of the Secretary of State, December 30, 1952, noon

December 30, 1952, noon

PPS files, lot 64 D 563, “Atomic Energy”

[67] Report by the Panel of Consultants of the Department of State to the Secretary of State

[Washington,] January 1953.

Disarmament files, lot 58 D 133, “Panel of Consultants on Disarmament”

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

[Washington,] January 19, 1953.

Disarmament files, lot 58 D 133, “NSC Papers, 1953–55”

[71] The Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Dean) to the Secretary of State

Washington, February 16, 1953.

Atomic Energy files, lot 57 D 688, “Uranium 1954”

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

Washington, February 17, 1953.

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

[75] Memorandum by Edmund A. Gullion, Member of the Policy Planning Staff

[Washington,] March 4, 1953.

PPS files, lot 64 D 563, “Atomic Energy—Armaments 1952–1953”

[76] Report to the National Security Council by the Atomic Energy Commission

[Washington,] March 6, 1953.

S/S–NSC files, lot 63 D 351, NSC 145

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

[Washington,] March 10, 1953.

PPS files, lot 64 D 563, “Atomic Energy–Armaments 1952–1953”

[79] Memorandum by the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council (Lay) to the NSC Senior Staff

[Washington,] March 12, 1953.

PPS files, lot 64 D 563, “Atomic Energy–Armaments 1952–1953”

[81] The Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Dean) to Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to the President

Washington, March 30, 1953.

Eisenhower Library, Eisenhower papers, Whitman file

[84] Memorandum for the Files, by J. Bruce Hamilton

[Washington,] April 13, 1953.

Atomic Energy files, lot 57 D 688, “Combined Development Agency–General”

[86] The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador (Bonnet)

[Washington, April 28, 1953.]

330.13/4–2853

[88] Report to the National Security Council by the NSC Planning Board

Washington, May 8, 1953.

S/S–NSC files, lot 63 D 351, NSC 151 Series