ABSTRACT
There has been talk of a comprehensive, effective international control of atomic weapons so long that many people have ceased to ask what it really means in practice. From a theoretical point of view it is naturally quite right to fix the goal first, and, when everyone is agreed as to the goal, discuss the ways and means of reaching it. At about 100 atomic factories, atomic piles, experimental stations and testing grounds, inspectors must see that no illegal manufactures are carried on. It is also considered advisable to control the stocks of existing materials for the manufacture of atomic weapons until, some time in the future, they are destroyed, also under control, of course. The only way of exercising a practical and satisfactory control seems, on the whole, to be to restrict supervision to the large atomic and hydrogen bombs, which are the least desirable contribution to modern warfare.
