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Atomic Energy Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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By resolution adopted January 24, 1946, at the Seventeenth Plenary Meeting, the General Assembly established the Atomic Energy Commission, composed of one representative of each of the States on the Security Council, and Canada, whose reports, recommendations and rules of procedure were to be given to and approved by the Security Council, which had the additional responsibility both of issuing directives to the Commission and transmitting reports from it to other appropriate United Nations agencies.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities I. The United Nations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 Assembly Journal, No. 14, p. 291–99.

2 Atomic Energy Commission, Official Records, No. 1, p. 14. Hereinafter referred to as A. E. C. Official Records.

3 Ibid., p. 7.

4 Ibid., p. 9.

5 Department of State Bulletin, XV, p. 96 ff.

6 Ibid., p. 98 ff.

7 Ibid., p. 102 ff.

8 A. E. C. Official Records, No. 2, p. 26 f.

9 A. E. C. Official Records, No. 2, p. 28 f.

10 Ibid., p. 30.

11 A. E. C. Official Records, No. 2 and 3, Passim.

12 Document AEC/INF/2.

13 A. E. C. Official Records, No. 5, p. 74. It should be noted that the provisions for voting in the Rules of Procedure of the Atomic Energy Commission call for a simple majority with no provision for veto powers by the permanent members of the Security Council.

14 Scientific and Technical Aspects of the Control of Atomic Energy, United Nations, Department of Public Information, Lake Success, 1946, 42 pages, p. 31.

15 United Nations Weekly Bulletin, I, No. 17. p. 41.

16 A. E. C./P.V./7

17 A. E. C./18