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THE sober, and somewhat sombre, review of the proposals for the international control of atomic energy, and the appraisal of the present position, which Dr. J. B. Oppenheimer, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States, contributes to the current issue of Foreign Affaire, appeared appropriately just when President Truman‘s Air Policy Commission had warned the United States that within five years foreign countries would almost certainly possess atomic weapons in quantity and would probably also have in mass production effective long-range guided missiles. Dr. Oppenheimer‘s review should receive close study, not merely by those directly interested, but also by scientific workers generally, on its own intrinsic merits. Apart from Dr. Oppenheimer‘s authority, it is a most valuable indication of the trend of opinion which has led to the specific recommendations of the Air Policy Commission, and as such assists materially in appraising their significance.
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International Control of Atomic Energy. Nature 161, 291–293 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161291a0
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