Russia and Atomic Bomb

Chronicle (Levin), 3 December 1946, Page 5

Russia and Atomic Bomb

Press Ass

MOTIVES IN DISARMAMENT

By Te'legraph

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Received Tuesday, 11.55 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 2. Senator Tom Connolly (U.S.A.), resuming the disarmament debate in the Political and Security Committee, accused Russia of trying to "get rid of the atomic bomb" as the primary objective, and then hoiding veto over any further disarmament steps. The United States would not agree to the Security CounciTs "uncontrolled and unbridled action." Senator Connolly made the charge that Russia was endeavouring to gain approval of a narrow and circumscfibed disarmament programme, and which would permit the continued use of other weapons of mass destruction such as jet weapons and poison gas. He declared that there could not be international inspection and control if any member of the Security Council could veto' the inspection. "That isn't international control. That is individual control," Senator Connolly added. The United States opposed any interruption or interference in the Atomic Commission's work. M. Vyshinsky (Russia) saicl that the outlawing of the atomic bomb was the main task, but Russi'a ac-tually had emphasised the neecl for a general slashing of armaments and was willing to specify all weapons. M. Vyshinsky did not mention the veto. Sir Hartley Shawcross (Britain), after listening to a detailed account by M. Vyshinsky of Russia 's sufferings during the war, said it was unprofitable to enter into a profit and loss inventory of the war. "The plain fact is that something like 20,000,000 people lost their lives in the war and it was not the atom bomb which killed them. We must prohibit the most terrible weapons, and we cannot say any longer that the atom bomb is the most terrible of these weapons not vet named, but their existenc-e is not entirely unknown."