Department of State Atomic Energy Files
The Deputy United States Representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (Osborn) to the Division of International Security Affairs
Attention: Mr. Joseph Johnson, Chief
Dear Sirs: I acknowledge receipt of the signed instructions of the Executive Committee on Atomic Energy, dated April 15, 1947.1 A copy has been sent to Senator Austin. We will continue to be guided accordingly.
We may add that the anxieties expressed in these instructions appear after six weeks of negotiation to be unfounded. The public does not as yet seem to have gotten the impression that the Russians are rapidly agreeing; nor has any question been raised at any of the meetings with respect to our providing additional scientific information. No responsible delegate of another nation has as yet indicated that such information is needed.
In our minds the most sensitive aspect of the work going on in Committee No. 2 is that by making more specific the recommendations in the Committee Report, clauses would be written which would be [Page 476] unacceptable to one or another of the nations which voted for the Report on December 31st. If this should happen, it would be our hope to reach an acceptable compromise with such nation by broadening the scope of such proposal by amendment in Committee No. 2 or the working committee.
Yours very truly,