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MORE than a year ago, the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations gave reasons, which no one attempted to answer, why it could see no hope of further progress towards international agreement and asked to be relieved of its task. The General Assembly of the United Nations insisted in November that the Commission should try again; but insistence, perhaps, indicated that the Assembly itself found the situation beyond its powers. Nor have events during the year offered the Commission much guidance as to how to proceed. The majority of the Commission seem to be firmly resolved that a measure of general agreement must come before detailed work can be considered on the allocation of quotas, the stages of procedure for control and the sanctions required with which atomic scientists in the United States are anxious to proceed.
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The Atomic Age. Nature 164, 161–163 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164161a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164161a0