Atomic Energy and World Government
| Published date | 01 September 1947 |
| Date | 01 September 1947 |
| Author | F. A. Rudd |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204700200305 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Atomic
Energy
and
World
Government
F.
A.
Rudd
T
he
First
Interim
Report
of
the
Atomic
Energy
Commission
was
presented
to
the
Security
Council
under date
of
Decem-
ber
31,
1946.
This
significant
document
represents the
result
of
deliberations from
June
14
to
December
31.
Following
prolonged
consideration
in
the
Council,
during
which
the
representative
for
the
U.S.S.R.,
Andrei
A.
Gromyko,
raised
the
major
issues
upon
which
agreement
could
not
be
reached
and
submitted
twelve
amendments
thereon,
the
Council
on
March
10
referred
the
Re-
port, together
with
its
record
of
consideration, back
to
the
Com-
mission
with
direction
to
submit
a
Second
Report
before
the
next
meeting
of
the
General
Assembly.
Findings
on
the
scientific
and
technical
aspects
included
safeguards
to
ensure
the
use
of
atomic
energy
for
peaceful
purposes,
among
which
was
the
important
conclusion
that
an
international
control
agency
must
be
responsible for
the
system
of
safeguards
and
control.
Comprehensive
safeguards
are
listed
against
diversion
of
uranium
and
thorium
from
declared
mines,
mills, refineries,
chemical
and
metallurgical
plants;
of
uranium
from
isotope
separation
plants;
and
of
uranium,
thorium,
and
plutonium
from
declared nuclear
reactors
and
chemical
extrac-
tion
plants.
These
safeguards
should
be
administered
through
a
system
of
licensing, inspection supervision, and
internal
mana-
gerial
operating
controls
established
by
and
responsible
to an
international
control
agency. This
agency
would
be
given
broad
privileges
of
movement
and
inspection
to
ensure
detection
of
clandestine activities.
In
addition
the
agency
would exercise
detailed
accounting,
and
control
storage and
shipment.
Among
the
general
findings
it
was
revealed
that
effective
control
of
atomic
energy depends
upon
effective
control
of
the
production
and
use
of
uranium,
thorium,
and
their
fissionable
derivatives;
that
whether
the
ultimate
nuclear fuel
be
destined
for
peaceful
or
destructive
uses,
the
productive
processes
are
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