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 60 STAT.] UNITED KINGDOM AND CANADA-ATOMIC ENERGY-NOV. 15, 1945 to time shall be similarly treated. We trust that other nations will adopt the same policy, thereby creating an atmosphere of reciprocal confidence in which political agreement and cooperation will flourish. 6. We have considered the question of the disclosure of detailed infor- mation concerning the practical industrial application of atomic energy. The military exploitation of atomic energy depends, in large part, upon the same methods and processes as would be required for industrial uses. We are not convinced that the spreading of the specialized informa- tion regarding the practical application of atomic energy, before it is possible to devise effective, reciprocal, and enforceable safeguards acceptable to all nations, would contribute to a constructive solution of the problem of the atomic bomb. On the contrary we think it might have the opposite effect. We are, however, prepared to share, on a reciprocal basis with others of the United Nations, detailed informa- tion concerning the practical industrial application of atomic energy just as soon as effective enforceable safeguards against its use for destructive purposes can be devised. 7. In order to attain the most effective means of entirely eliminating the use of atomic energy for destructive purposes and promoting its widest use for industrial and humanitarian purposes, we are of the opinion that at the earliest practicable date a Commission should be set up under the United Nations Organization to prepare recommenda- tions for submission to the Organization. The Commission should be instructed to proceed with the utmost dispatch and should be authorized to submit recommendations from time to time dealing with separate phases of its work. In particular the Commission should make specific proposals: (a) For extending between all nations the exchange of basic scientific information for peaceful ends, (b) For control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes, (c) For the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction, (d) For effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect complying states against the hazards of violations and evasions. 8. The work of the Commission should proceed by separate stages, the successful completion of each one of which will develop the neces- sary confidence of the world before the next stage is undertaken. Specifically it is considered that the Commission might well devote its attention first to the wide exchange of scientists and scientific informa- tion, and as a second stage to the development of full knowledge con- cerning natural resources of raw materials. 9. Faced with the terrible realities of the application of science to destruction, every nation will realize more urgently than before the overwhelming need to maintain the rule of law among nations and to 1481

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