9, On November 4, 1948, the General Assembly adopted by a vote
of 40-6 (the USSR opposing) a Canadian resolution approving the
UN Atomic =inergy Commission majority plan (the U. S. proposal)
as a basis for "establishing an effective system of international control
of atomic energy.'"' The resolution created a committee of six to
determine if there existed "any basis for agreement on international
control of atomic energy."
10,
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On September 23, 1949, President Truman announced the first
atomic explosion in the USSR.
11. On October 24, 1949, the committee of six reported on fundamental
differences between the USGR and the Western powers with regard to
control of atomic energy. The report concluded that the majority
powers put world security above sovereignty, while the USSR put
its sovereignty firstand insisted on unimpeded exercise thereof,
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12, The United States on October 24, 1950, proposed that the work
of the UN Atomic Energy Commission and the UN Commission on
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Conventional Armaments be more closely brought together and that
this work be carried forward by "a new and consolidated disarmament ‘ey,
commission,"
13,
On November +, 1951, the UC, UK and France sponsored proposals
in the UN, providing for regulation, limitation and balanced reduction
of all armed forces and armaments, including atomic weapons. The
proposals provided for a progressive disclosure and verification of
ali armed forces and armaments, including atomic, and provided
that the UN majority plan should continue to serve as a basis for
control of atomic energy, unless a better or not less effective system
could be devised,
14, On November 16, 1951, the USSR rejected the tripartite proposal
and submitted a counter-proposal calling for a convention prohibiting
atomic weapons,
15.
On January 11, 1952, the General Assembly adopted a resolution
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creating the UN Disarmament Commission.
16, On January 12, 1952, the UGSR delegation submitted proposals
which provided that prohibition of atomic weapons and "strict
international control" of atomic weapons should come into effect
Simultaneously, but that the control organ not be entitled to interfere
in the domestic affairs of any state.
17,
On April 5, 1952, in the first meeting of the Disarmament
Commission, the U. S, co-sponsored the first of a series of working
Papers, including a "proposal for progressive and continuing disclosure
and verification of all armed forcesand armaments, including atomic."
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