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Date Issued:
1984
Summary:
This thesis takes the reader from the detonation of the first atomic bomb to the failure to reach agreement at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission meeting during the fall of 1946. Within these months was lost perhaps the last opportunity to eliminate the nuclear threat to the world, and gone a chance to avert an international arms race. The subject of responsibility for failure to reach agreement on the American proposal, presented by Bernard M. Baruch at the first meeting in 1946, is here addressed. When negotiations were still possible, Baruch remained inflexible because of reliance upon a winning weapon. The Russian delegate, Andrei A. Gromyko, was unshaken in clinging to national security, and optimistic about the Soviet development of its own bomb. In no way was agreement possible. Both sides took positions which ensured failure.
Title: THE BARUCH PLAN.
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Name(s): BYSTOCK, TED.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
O'Sullivan, John, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued: 1984
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 104 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis takes the reader from the detonation of the first atomic bomb to the failure to reach agreement at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission meeting during the fall of 1946. Within these months was lost perhaps the last opportunity to eliminate the nuclear threat to the world, and gone a chance to avert an international arms race. The subject of responsibility for failure to reach agreement on the American proposal, presented by Bernard M. Baruch at the first meeting in 1946, is here addressed. When negotiations were still possible, Baruch remained inflexible because of reliance upon a winning weapon. The Russian delegate, Andrei A. Gromyko, was unshaken in clinging to national security, and optimistic about the Soviet development of its own bomb. In no way was agreement possible. Both sides took positions which ensured failure.
Identifier: 14222 (digitool), FADT14222 (IID), fau:11032 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1984.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Baruch, Bernard M.--(Bernard Mannes),--1870-1965
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear arms control
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