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the Soviet system. In fact, if the Soviet Union were to change in this
manner, they should be as insistent as we on the' effectiveness of the
control system., Should this come to pass, there would be ample op-
portunities for testing their good faith-and of all other nations-
during:

  (a) The negotiating out of the remainder of the UN plan, par-
ticularly on stages and on the distribution of atomic materials and
facilities,
  (b) The actual implementation of the plan, and
  (e) The concurrent implementation of an effective plan for the
regulation and reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces.
Conclusions
  1. The United 'States should continue to support effective inter-
national control of atomic energy by continuing its support for the
UN plan.
  2. The United States should continue to emphasize its view that
atomic energy control and the regulation and reduction of conven-
tional armaments and armed forces are integral parts of -the over-all
problems of collective security and disarmament, and that an essen-
tial ingredient of agreement on both plans is agreement on their
coordinated implementation.
  In connection with this latter point, the Regulation of Armaments
Committee (RAC), whose members are the Secretary of State and
the Secretary of Defense, with the Chairman of the AEC a member
when atomic energy control is involved, is responsible for United
States policy in the general field of disarmament. It has recently been
inactive because of reorganization within Defense, but it is now pre-.
paring to resume its work, with particular emphasis on .the inter-
relationship betwe"en 'atomic energy control and the regulation and
reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces. Mr. Hicker-
son is your working deputy on RAC.
  This memorandumn has been discussed wilth, and concurred in by,
Mr. Matthews, Mr. Hickerson and Mr. Nitze.
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