Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe, The Soviet Union, Volume VI

501.BC Atomic/6–2246: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Smith) to the Secretary of State

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Moscow, June 22, 1946—9 a.m.
[Received 10:42 a.m.]

1966. Emb 1939, June 19.¹⁴ Although no reference to contents Baruch report has yet been made, Soviet press June 21 carries New York Tass dispatch reporting that at June 19 meeting UN Atomic Energy Commission Australian, Canadian, British, Chinese, Brazilian and Mexican representatives announced approval by their respective govts of US proposals advanced by Baruch, and that Gromyko presented Soviet proposal for international agreement which would “ban production and utilization of atomic weapons and provide for destruction of existing stores of atomic weapons”.¹⁵ Bulk Gromyko’s speech is then quoted.¹⁶

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14. Not printed.
15. For documentation in regard to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission activities, see vol. i.
16. For text of the proposals made by Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko, the representative of the Soviet Union at the United Nations, see New York Times, June 20, 1946, p. 4.