3. The Struggle for International Control, 1945-1980.

Listed Guests of Honor include Edward Condon, Enrico Fermi, J.H. Von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer, I.I. Rabi, William Shockley, Henry D. Smyth, Leo Szilard, Harold Urey, et al. Speakers include Brian McMahon and Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. Includes a printed "Statement of Dr. Albert Einstein."

FIRST PUBLICATION OF THIS DECLARATION, signed at the White House on November 15, by Truman, Attlee and King.

Supervised by Richard C. Tolman. Includes "Introduction to Atomic Energy" by R.F. Bacher and R.P. Feynman; "The Military Effectiveness of the Atomic Bomb" by A.K. Solomon and Philip Morrison, etc.

"Primarily concerned with the future beneficial uses of atomic energy." -Foreword. Contributions by A.H. Compton, Ernest O. Lawrence, Harold C. Urey, et al.

Study made by members of the Monsanto Clinton Laboratories Staff.

Text by Dr. C.P. Rhoads, Director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.

Incorporates 2 reports by Manhattan District technical committees.

John B. Miles's copy, signed by him on the title-leaf.

Text of the talks given on B.B.C.'s "Atomic Week." Includes Cockroft, J. Bronowski, P.M.S. Blackett, Bertrand Russell, Henry A. Wallace, and others.

Comprises International Conciliation. No. 423, September 1946.

Pp. 544-576 deal with atomic energy issues.

"International Control of Atomic Energy," pp. 341-349.

Includes "The International Control of Missile Material Production" by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly. Laid in is a single-sheet "Statement by the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists" summarizing their program and appealing for funds.

Includes "The Way Out," "Atomic War or Peace (I & II)," and other essays relating to atomic weapons.

Appeals to the recipient for a pledge toward a $1,000,000 educational fund "to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of the simple facts of atomic energy and its implications for society."

Critique of the failure of the year-long discussions in the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission to achieve international control. The source of Einstein's oft-quoted statement, "one cannot prepare for war and expect peace." Co-signers of the letter include H.A. Bethe, Leo Szilard, and Victor Weisskopf.

Comprises Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 129.

Friendly's collected articles for the Post. Very scarce in this format.

"The thesis of this pamphlet is that neither the Baruch Plan nor any sort of international police force or superstate offers any prospect of effective control of atomic weapons, and that if atomic warfare is to be avoided it can only be by means of control by the United States and its Allies."

Excellent analysis of post World War II atomic politics.

Statement prepared on behalf of the executive committee of the atomic scientists of Chicago, comprising most ofthe scientists attached to the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago during the Manhattan Project. Advocates International Control.

Comprises the Human Events Pamphlets Number I. December 1945.

By the President of the National Industrial Conference Board.

A landmark publication in the abortive movement for international control. Contributors include Hans Bethe, Albert Einstein, Irving Langmuir, J.R. Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Harold Urey, and other luminaries.

This is a very unusual grass-roots publication by the citizens of a small midwest town, calling for strengthened resolutions in the U.N. to control the spread of atomic weapons. It advocates a version of "The Quota Force Plan," which had been developed by the noted Bridge expert Ely Culbertson and others. This is Ely Culbertson's copy, and is signed by him on the front wrappers.

Offprint from the October 1945 issue of Fellowship. A plea for international control, by the noted activist A.J. Muste.

Calls on the community of scientists to refuse to participate in the making of atomic bombs.

Reprinted from the United Nations Weekly Bulletin.

Information sheet supporting the American plan for International Control.

This is the full text of the first official international report on the control of atomic energy, originally published as a special to the New York Times, September 28, 1946.

A history of international negotiations on the atom bomb and atomic energy, and an analysis of the reasons for the deadlock in International Control. The first part includes a separate 8-page insert on "Atomic Energy: The Technical Facts."

The Author was Deputy U.S. Representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. This issue also includes "Russia, the U.S., and the Atom. By a Foreign Observer."

Presents a plan for international ownership of all atomic plants in the hope of breaking the U.N. deadlock on atomic energy control.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Record of a speaking tour through rural North Dakota, and a plea for International Control.

Excellent history of the post-war "atomic scientists' movement." "Records the dramatic change in [the] attitude of scientists toward public affairs which followed on the release of atomic energy."

On post WWII nuclear policy.

Includes papers by Oppenheimer, Fermi, Smyth, et al.

The is a contemporary mimeographed copy of a typed letter to Albert Einstein, concerning the "setting up of an organization to study what type of an over-all Russian and American settlement would provide a framework in which international control of atomic energy could satisfactorily operate."

Calls for a world government as the only effective means of assuring the survival of civilization in the age of atomic weapons.

"At once a history, a contemporary account, and a prediction of things to come."

Hearings into charges by Senator Hickenlooper that "the United States atomic energy program is virtually a failure."

This is the text of Baruch's famous speech, beginning "We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead...." Comprises The United States and the United Nations Report Series No. 2.

Includes a very interesting series of questions from Senator Hickenlooper to Dr. Smyth concerning the AEC and the "Loyalty Oath."

This is the first printing of the famous "Atomic Energy Act of 1946," which defined U.S. nuclear policy until 1954. Very scarce.

Hearings from November 27, 1945-February 15, 1946. These are the FIRST CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON ATOMIC ENERGY. Includes testimony of Leslie Groves, Harold Urey, J.R. Oppenheimer, Hans A. Bethe, Leo Szilard, S.A. Goudsmit, S. A. Parsons, and many others. The present set bears the stamp "Office Copy-War Resisters League."

Comprises The University of Chicago Round Table, Number 601.

Includes photo-essays on "The Atom Bombs," "Bikini-1946 by William L. Laurence," and "The Baruch Plan."

Reprints the text of the inaugural speech for the "Working Programme for Lasting Peace" first given in 1947.