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have been based, particular'y the schemes advanced by Danil and
Squirestf and Newmant.§
*It is interesting to: note that the recommendations of the Acheson-.
Lilienthal report were based specifically on .the belief that the possi'
bilities for peaceful uses were great enough to justify tht eftort to try
to control dangerous activities.,
  "If atomic energy had only oneoconceivable use-its ,horribe powers
of mass-destruction-"-the report said, "t'hen the incoentive to
follow
the course of complete ,prohibition and suppression might be very
great. Indeed, ,it has been responsibly suggested that however attrac-
tive may )bce the potentialities for benefit ,from atomic energy, they are
so powerfully otitweighed '.by ,the malevolent that our course should be
-to buiry the whole idea, to bury it deep, to 'forget it, an, d tomake it
illegal for anyone to carry on f, irther inquiries or developments in
this field.
  "We have concluded i that the beneficil - 1-possibilities-:some  f
them
are more than possibilities, for they are within.close reach of.actual-
ity--in the Use-of atomic energy should be and can be made to aid in
the -development ,of a reasonably suce"Wssful system of secUrity, and
the
plan we recommend is in"part predicated on that idea,...
  "That mankind can confidently look forward ,to - suc-h beneficial
uses
is a fact that offers a clue of not inconsiderable importance:to the kind
of security arraigements-that can be made effective,. .
  An-agreement to forego operation of large reactors at this time
would. not have to xbe taken as.a permanent renunciation of theossi'
bility of th d-evelopmentý of large-soale atomic energy production
for
peaceful purposes. There isno :,particula r reason why an a- angtwment
would have to be of a permanent nature. On thecohtrary, thlere6 a1re
goodtI- reasons -why it might be btter to havor ,t this titn a tem pora*
modU8'vivendi In the tfirst place, as poined : out above, the progres
made- toVard :bne~ficial uSes of nular f~uel~s :is not yet :uch-as to make
it really important that international soc ity ecupy itself ow wivth

    tARoad. to A-tomic Pýea#ce, by Cuthbert Daniel and Arthur M. S
quires; 1ih.
'hristianCentuiry Poundation, Chicago, 1949. [Footnote-in the source text.]
  T-James R-. Newman, form~er Counsqel t,6 the MtkcM-ahon Oommittejý,
w'hose vie6wgs
  were set forth in a broadcast over ABC on October 26, 1949, and summed
fpý
without attribution in the lead editorial-of The New Republic, Vol. 121,
No. 19,
     ~~ ~~ý ~b           P 6r ' it toti-oft 1n-the s~arlPee tx~
  --he Rugsia-na    e      inan;g th6 re  cifr il n ngh quektin ooif the
operation - of aninte--
hational authorit min-the Soviet Uniot ". .. a question of substance
... a
fundamental point . . ." (Vyshinski's speech of November 10, 1949-,
befre thte
United Nations Assembly). [Footnote in the source text.-Reference is to the
hd/es bJ ,ovElet epreoita ive :Vyshinsky at the 33rd meeting of the Ad Hoe
P-oIitl Committee6 ofthet "     Aenera  Asembl,-Noveember 10, 1949;
for the
      re~r~ofhisrearssee l~ited ~ations, 9/ilcia Record& ofthe- General
  4emb .A-n , Pourt6 Pes061on, Ad ttoc 4oltcal Committee (hereafter cited
as
  GA (IV), Ad Hoc Political Committee), pp. 186-189.]
  11"A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy", Washington,
  D.C., March 16, 1946; Department of State Publication 2498, pp. 15-16.
[Footnote
  in the source text.]


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