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OCR Page 1 of 10DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652 Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
PUBLIC PAPERP of PRES. TRUMON 1949 PAGE 216
NETH
NARS Date 7-23-75
TOP SEORET.
I believe the American people, to the fullest
extent consistent with national security, are entitled
to be informed of all developments in the field of
atomic energy. That is my reason for making public the
following information.
We have evidence that within recent weeks an
atomic explosion occurred in the U.S.S.R.
Ever since atomic energy was first released
by man, the eventual development of this new force by
other nations was to be expected. This probability has
always been taken into account by us.
Nearly four years ago I pointed out that
"Scientific opinion appears to be practically unanimous
that the essential theoretical knowledge upon which the
discovery is based is already widely known. There is
also substantial agreement that foreign research can come
abreast of our present theoretical knowledge in time"
And, in the Three-Nation Declaration of the President of
the United States and the Prime Ministers of the United
Kingdom and of Canada, dated November 15th, 1945,
it was emphasised that no single nation could in fact have
a monopoly of atomic weapons.
This recent development emphasises once again,
if indeed such emphasis were needed, the necessity for
that truly effective enforceable international control of
atomic energy which this government and the large majority
of the members of the United Nations support.
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