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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs (Raynor)
- Subject:
- Atomic Energy Matters
- Participants:
- Sir Roger Makins, British Ambassador
- The Secretary
- Mr. H. Raynor, Director, BNA
While calling on other matters this afternoon Sir Roger Makins said that he wanted to inform the Secretary not for the purpose of his taking any action but for general information that he, together with Sir Edward Plowden, the new head of the atomic energy matters in the U.K. have started conversations under the new Atomic Energy Act which should make further collaboration possible with the Atomic Energy Commission on the civil aspects and with Defense on the military aspects. He said he hoped that these conversations would result in new bilateral agreements in each field. He said in the past and presently in the military talks legal obstacles had often cropped up to make progress difficult.
He said that talks had also been held with respect to the question of creating an atomic energy agency in line with the President’s proposal and with respect to the convening next spring of the conference of atomic scientists. He said in these two fields he thought there was full agreement between ourselves and the U.K.