CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY

Chronicle (Levin), 12 October 1946, Page 5

CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY

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UNITED STATES HAS ONLY ONE PLAN

By Telegraph

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Received Saturday, 11.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. _ If the United States plan for world- control of atomic energy failed, the United States had no alternative plan to recommend, said Mr. John M. Hancock, United States Atomic Energy Oommission delegate. He added that it was a misconception to think that the United States. proposed to reveal its knowledge of atomic energy only when the international control and inspection system was working to the United i States own satisfaction. ^ i Mr. Hancock said that the United States would stop manufacturirig bombs, destroy existing bombs and give the world controlling authority full information about the production oi' atomic energy when all countries had agreed toan adequate control system, and had put it into effective operation, renounced the atomic bomb as a weapon and provided swift and certain punishment for viotations of the treaty. There was also an entirely wrong assumption that the United States insistence upon the elimination of the veto power from atomic energy control was intended as a general attack upon the veto. Nothing could be further from fact. The object was to ensure that the veto was not used to proteet violators of the treaty. Mr. Hancock .said the suggestion that it would be a great goodwill gesture if the United States agreed to stop making atomic bombs, overlooked every clemonstration already given of her sincere wish to outlaw the use of the weapon, but no other nation had yet offered even a minimum of disarmament, let alone the elimination from its arsenal of any comparably powerful weapona. It also overlooked the fact that many nations would lose the se'nse of security they now enjoyed, because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Incleed the United States Government had been deeply moved by the many nations' expressions of their faith therein. "if the United States by itself agreed now never to use the bomb under anv possible conditions, he said, it seemecl clear that an effective plan for controlling atomic energy would never be procured.