United Nations Atomic Energy Commission

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The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) was founded in 1946 by the first resolution of the United Nations General Assembly "to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy."^[1]

Bernard Baruch was the U.S. representative to the Commission, and on 14 June 1946 he presented a proposal, the Baruch Plan, that the United States (at the time the only state possessing atomic weapons) would destroy its atomic arsenal on condition that the U.N. imposed controls on atomic development that would not be subject to U.N. Security Council veto. These controls would allow only the peaceful use of atomic energy. The plan was passed by the Commission, but not agreed to by the Soviet Union who abstained on the proposal in the Security Council. Debate on the plan continued into 1948, but by early 1947 it was clear that agreement was unlikely.^[2]

In 1949 the UNAEC decided to adjourn indefinitely.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1 session 1 Establishment of a Commission to Deal with the Problems Raised by the Discovery of Atomic Energy on 24 January 1946
2. ^ McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (New York, Vintage Books, 1988), pp. 176-184.

[edit] External links

• Hans Bethe talking about the formation of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission on Peoples Archive.
• "General Findings and Recommendations Approved by the Atomic Energy Commission and Incorporated in its First Report to the Security Council, December 31, 1946" — from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
• Negotiating International Control (December 1945-1946), The Manhattan Project Interactive History, U.S. Department of Energy

[edit] See also

• Baruch Plan
• Acheson-Lilienthal Report,
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• Cold War

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