’ ~15L- a position even to indicate how complete or incomplete their own knowledge of production processes is. Presumably what they ragard as necessary they believe to be feasible. As a matter of fact, no one questions the caleectyof a national government Oper to protect itself against the illegal production of bombs within its territory. It follows, therefore, that there are unlikely to be insuperable scientific or . technical obstacles to effective inspection and control. exist, are political. The obstecles, if they All that a social scientist can now say is that if adequate inspection is possible through careful inspection of a few strategic control points--like the sites of known uranium deposits, for example--the prospects are better than if adequate inspection requires the policing of the internal affairs of each country so complete that that country's basic social institutions are threatened. It would be premature for policy-makers to make long-term decisions of fundamental importance until the analysis of the feasibility of inspection is more complete than it now appears to be. In the meantime, the United States must have some policy. This policy must be able to win for the nations of the world time to make a more profound study of the problem of controlling atomic enercy on a long-term basis. ‘So long as the policy is clearly understood to be a short-run policy, the necessity for evolving a long-term solution will not be forgotten. Neither will the necessity of keeping the short-term policy in harmony with ultimate goals. Judged by these standards, how adequate is the beginning made by the United States in the international control of atomic energy? have been held. Two three-power conferences The first, the so-called Potomac Conference resulted on November 15, 1945, in the "Agreed Declaration" by President Truman and Prime Ministers Attlee and King.100 The second, held the following month at Moscow, was at the Foreign Minister level, and resulted on December 27, 1915, in a joint communiqué 100, Department of State Bulletin, November 18, 195, p. 781.