The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1948-05-15
keeping up with the times:
U.s.. and the international
Control Of Atomic Energy
by hideo hoshide
WHEN THE FIRST ATOMIC
by hideo hoshide

WIEN THE FIRST ATOMIC
| . bomb ever TO be produced exploded over Hiroshima
in The closing days of the japanese defeat in the Pa
cfc war. it brought thinking among the family
naons in its foreign relations. The United States
a the sole posessor the capacity the present to
produce tie atomic bomb knows fully well that the
unlimited potential power of this energy play
q major role il. the relations between nations
In 1895 shortly after the release of the worlds first
two A-bombs President Truman reiterated the United
States foreign policy that atomic bomb does not al
ter the basic policy of the United States"
THE UNITED STATES HAS TAKEN STEPS
. toward international control of atomic energy. The
U S has expressed the policy of the principle of
trusteeshp that nation should maintain the secret
but should share the secret through rsteeship Our
first step toward this principle made in the At
cheson- Lilentha Report of 1916.
This Atcheson- Lilenthal Report was merely a
blueprint to build any future proposals in connections
with the transtory stages which every proposition will
have TO develop gradually cooperation with any in
ternationa authority
The Baruch Report followed shortly after which
embodied the principle of international trusteeship
but proposed to establish ian international atomic
development authority" within the framework of the
United Nations which has the sole responsibility to
control ard foster the beneficial of atomic energy
and to prevent any destructive application. No doubt
these United States proposals for the information
control of atomic energy is far from the ideal How
ever they are steps toward peacetime development of
the energy.
THERE ARE FIVE IMMUTABLE FACTORS
. which make international control of atomic energy
imperative peace and security of the world is to be
assured. These are:
l. No nation maintain monopoly of
atomic weapons.
2. No nation can maintain and morally de-
fend a peaceful effort for atomic energy.
g. There is known adequate defense
against atomic energy.
4. All initial processes of development of fis-
stable materials identical, whether the pur
pose is for peace for
5. All basic material known now are
rare but other sources of atomic energy may be
found, which more plentiful
RUSSIAN OBJECTIONS TO THE U. S. PROPOSALS
for international control of atomic energy have
far stimed any attempt to work out practical solu
ton within the framework of the United Nations The
two giants the world the United States and Russia
are using atomic energy in their power politics instead
CT yielding little to work out sort of airtight
control system.
The Russian objections to proposals are
l. Atomic energy should be outlawed immediate
stockpile of atomic bombs, and would remove the
threatening arm of United States tightly graSping
atomic bomb
Any matter pertaining to atomic energy
should be placed within the Jurisdiction
CT the United Nations Security Council.
Again, it is the Russian mind at work She
can use the important, but much abused,
power of veto there
The United States proposals for interna-
tional control of atomic energy place in
reference to the national sovereignty and
this the Russians would not agree to, AL
though Russia intends to maintain her
iron curtain over Eastern Europe, the
United States proposals will provide for Sc
curity checks by the U. N. investigators
within her iron curtain.
THE UNITED STATES STAND
has always been to outlaw atomic energy ONLY if
other nations not able to produce it. 1t took the
combined energies of three wartime Allies, Great Bri-
tam Canada and the United States, TO produce the
atomic bombs However, long as there is posi-
bility that Russia any other nation may be able to
produce the bombs in the future international con-
troll system must be devised which will insure world
security.