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{b)
On June 11,
1955, President Eisenhower announced a
proposal by our Governmentto share one-half the cost of
research reactors to be built in friendly foreign nations.
The purpose was to marshal world opinion in support of
a demand that atomic science be used for the benefit of
mankind.
(c)
We initiated the largest scientific congress ever held (The
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic
Energy, Geneva, August, 1955) at which a very large amount
of non-military atomic information was exchanged.
(d)
The President allocated in 1954, 1955, and 1956 total of
40, 200 kilogramsof fissionable material for research and
power reactors in the United States and abroad.
(e)
The United States announced to the Colombo Plan nations in
a meeting in Singapore in October 1955 that it would support
an Asian Nuclear Research Center for the training of scientists
and engineers in the Far East; plans bave been formulated for
this Research Center to be located in Manila.
(f)
The Atomic Energy Commission is assisting in the establishment
of a research and training center at the University of Puerto
Rico where instruction and training in the nuclear sciences
will be given in the Spanish language, thereby expanding the
Commission's training program for the special benefit of
students from Latin American countries.
(g}
In conjunction with the Organization of American States, the
Atomic Energy Commission has initiated a program of
assistance to the Inter-American Institute of Agriculture
Sciences at Turrialba, Costa Rica.
(4)
The United States has announced plans for an Inter-American
Symposium on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy to be held
next May at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.
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President Eisenhower's United Nations speech in the meantime has
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borne fruit:
(a)
On the initiative of the United States, representatives of 12
nations -- including the USSR -- met in Washington earlier
this year and drafted the statute (charter) of the International
Atomic Energy Agency.
{b)
Delegates from 82 nations began a conference on September 20
in New York to consider the statute (charter); agreement was
reached today,
October 23d,
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