Atoms for Peace Proposal

UNANIMOUS approval of the resolution calling for the creation of an international agency for the peaceful use of atomic energy has been voted by the United Nations Political Committee (November 23rd) and by the General Assembly (December 4th). Despite the defeat of Soviet‐sponsored amendments calling for Communist Chinese participation in next summer’s international scientific conference and for placing the atomic agency under control of the Security Council, all of the Soviet‐bloc nations voted to approve the resolution as a whole. United States delegate Henry Cabot Lodge has told the UN that this country will make available to the agency 100 kilograms of fissionable reactor fuel, will provide complete technical libraries of unclassified atomic energy data to nations belonging to the agency, and will make it possible for foreign students and research scientists to study and work in selected training schools and research establishments in the United States.

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