Review of Basic Disarmament Policy; Negotiations in the Subcommittee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission; Proposals for Inspection and Verification; Nuclear Weapons Tests; Effects of Fall-Out From Nuclear Explosions; Exchange of Atomic Information; Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy; Creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. II, Part 2, pp. 845 ff. Much of the documentation appearing in the Foreign Relations series for 1955–1957 concerns subjects relating to regulation of armaments and atomic energy.


151. Letter From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Anderson) to the President’s Deputy Special Assistant (Peaslee)

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, Disarmament Policy. Top Secret.


152. Letter From the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (Murphy) to the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen)

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, Disarmament Policy. Top Secret.


153. Letter From the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen) to the Secretary of Defense (Wilson)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Secret.


154. Memorandum of a Conversation, White House, Washington, September 11, 1956

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, US Policy Progress Reports. Top Secret. Drafted by Jackson. This memorandum was given to the President for his approval on September 17 and was circulated to several of the participants on September 18; see footnote 2, infra. Another account of this meeting drafted by Goodpaster, based on a report of the meeting by Sherman Adams, is in Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DDE Diaries.


155. Memorandum From the President’s Staff Secretary (Goodpaster) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Jackson)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Staff Secretary Records, Jackson. Secret.


157. Memorandum of Discussion at the 298th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, September 27, 1956

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Gleason on September 28.


158. Memorandum From the Secretary of State to the President

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series. Secret. The President initialed the source text.


159. Letter From the Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission (Murray) to the President

Source: Eisenhower Library, Sp. Asst. for Nat. Sec. Affairs Records. Secret.


160. Letter From President Eisenhower to Prime Minister Eden

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series. Top Secret. A copy of this letter was sent to Secretary Dulles.


161. Letter From the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen) to Emmet J. Hughes

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Central Files, Confidential File. Hughes was a speech writer for President Eisenhower and subsequently author of The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years (New York: Atheneum, 1963).


162. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (Strauss), Washington, October 22, 1956, 11:40 a.m.

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Confidential.


163. Letter From the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (Strauss) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, Atomic Energy Files: Lot 57 D 688, IAEA—Director General.


164. Letter From the Secretary of Defense (Wilson) to the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen)

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, Disarmament Policy. Top Secret.


165. Record of Action of a Special Meeting, Washington, November 21, 1956, 10 a.m.

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, Disarmament Policy. Top Secret. No drafting information is given on the source text. A covering memorandum attached to a copy of this record of action indicates that the President, Acting Secretary of State, Stassen, Strauss, and Radford attended this meeting. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File) A memorandum of conference prepared by Goodpaster indicates the time and place of the meeting and that it was also attended by Secretary of Defense Wilson, Bowie, Peaslee, William Jackson, and Goodpaster. (Ibid., DDE Diaries)


166. Letter From the Secretary of Defense (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, S/AE Files: Lot 68 D 358, Amendments to Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Top Secret.


167. Memorandum of a Conversation, White House, Washington, December 26, 1956

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series. Secret. Drafted by Murphy. Retyped in S/S–RO on December 29. A handwritten notation by Goodpaster at the end of the source text reads: “Revised version. Previous text destroyed (I destroyed cy #2 of 7, series A) G”. A memorandum from Greene to Goodpaster, December 31, regarding the December 26 memorandum of conversation reads:

“We have revised the memorandum of conversation concerning nuclear tests, to take into account the corrections you telephoned to my office on Saturday [December 29]. A copy of the revision is enclosed.

“All copies of the previous version have been recalled and destroyed.”

(Ibid.)


168. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, January 11, 1957, 4:45–4:55 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/1–1157. Secret. Drafted by Tyler and cleared by Elbrick.


169. Telegram From the Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 330.13/1–1757. Secret; Priority.


170. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen), Secretary Dulles’ Residence, Washington, January 20, 1957, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, General Memoranda of Conversation. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles.


171. Memorandum for the Record, by the President’s Staff Secretary (Goodpaster)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Staff Secretary Records, Disarmament.


172. Letter From the Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the President

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Administration Series, Lodge. The President initialed the source text.


173. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (Strauss), Department of State, Washington, February 14, 1957

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, Chronological File. Secret. Drafted by Dulles.


174. Telegram From the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 330.13/3–457. Secret.


175. Memorandum of Discussion at the 315th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, March 6, 1957

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Gleason on March 7.


176. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/3–657. Top Secret. Drafted by Baker, cleared by Toner and Wolf, and approved by Walmsley.


178. Letter From the Secretary of Defense (Wilson) to the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen)

Source: Department of State, Disarmament Files: Lot 58 D 133, Disarmament Policy. Top Secret.


180. Letter From the President’s Special Assistant (Stassen) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 600.0012/4–257. Secret; Personal.