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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87R00029R000300590014-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 2, 1983
• Content Type: LETTER

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Center for Strategic & International Studies
Georgetown University / 1800 K Street Northwest / Washington DC 20006 / Telephone [phone]
TWX: 7108229583 Cable Address: CENSTRAT
CIA-NIC
Science & Technology
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear Mr.
The Energy and Strategic Resources Program of CSIS,
with the support of Los Alamos National Laboratory,
will be hosting a conference commemorating the
Thirtieth Anniversary of President Eisenhower's
"Atoms for Peace" proposal on December 7-8, 1983.
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to
attend Atoms for Peace After Thirty Years.
After three decades, the Atoms for Peace concept
remains the center of international nuclear policy.
Despite its continued relevance, or perhaps because
of it, the origins and development of..Atoms for Peace
are little understood and subject to frequent
discussion and revision. Through this conference we
hope to provide an oral history record evolving from
the discussion of nuclear scientists, statesmen and
scholars, of the objectives and implementation of
Atoms for Peace over its thirty year history.
Further, this conference will attempt to ascertain
lessons to provide guidance for the future on such
important questions as the role of the United States
in international nuclear cooperation and trade, the
scope for and limitations of international cooperation
on nuclear energy and nonproliferation matters, and the
prospect for multinational and international
institutional measures to achieve these ends.
As. will be seen from the attached agenda, we have
sought as wide a representation as possible of
internationally recognized scientists, scholars and
statesmen.
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The invitees are also encouraged to participate in the
ensuing discussions. The papers and proceedings of
the conference will be published in book form.
The conference will take place here at CSIS, in our
Wadsworth Room (81) , 1800 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
We have also enclosed our RSVP form for your convenience.
For fur ormation, please contact my Assistant,
at (202) 775-3236; (202) 887-0200 x.236
Our telex is #7108229583.
We look forward to your participation and thank you in
advance for your interest.
Sincerely,
Strategic Resources
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CONFERENCE PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
ATOMS FOR PEACE AFTER THIRTY YEARS
Thirty years ago, on December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower offered to
the UN General Assembly his Atoms for Peace proposal. Designed to promote the
peaceful use of atomic energy as a means of reversing the trend towards
expanding atomic military potential, the proposal inaugurated a new nuclear
era. The President's call for wider nuclear cooperation under international
verification of peaceful uses marked the end of the post-war US nuclear policy
of secrecy and denial, and provided the framework for future US peaceful
nuclear trade, cooperation and non-proliferation policies. After three
decades, the Atoms for Peace concept remains at the center of US nuclear
policy, as is evident from an examination of the Reagan Administration's
nuclear energy, nuclear cooperation and non-proliferation, and plutonium use
policies.
Despite this continued relevance, or perhaps precisely because of it, the
origins and development of Atoms for Peace are little understood and subject
to frequent distortion and revision. In order to foster an understanding of
the past, present and future significance of the Atoms for Peace proposal and
subsequent policy, we are organizing a conference to mark its 30th
anniversary. Through this conference, we hope to provide a forum for an
exchange of information and opinion among nuclear scientists, statesmen and
scholars on the objectives and implementation of Atoms for Peace over its
tumultuous thirty year history. Further, this conference will consciously
grapple with that past, and attempt to ascertain its lessons in order to
provide guidance for the future on such important questions as the role of the
US in international nuclear affairs, the nature'of appropriate controls over
nuclear coOperatioti and trade, the scope for and limitations of 'international
cooperation on nuclear energy and non-proliferation matters, and the prospect
for multinational and international institutional measures to achieve these
ends.
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