ABSTRACT
The Baruch Plan was put forward on 14 June 1946, and Gromyko's counter-proposal on the nineteenth. Baruch set out the plan in a speech to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) on 14 June 1946. Acheson-Lilienthal declares it the first task: but in the Baruch Plan the sensitive provisos- "limitations," "political problem"-have fallen away. Of course Soviet officials were fully aware of Acheson-Lilienthal, in every detail; the United States, Baruch said, would offer copies to all members of the UNAEC. A further Soviet proposal in mid-1947 would have accepted some element of control, but was rejected in April 1948. Early control of Soviet—and other—sources of fissile material: "The Authority should have as one of its earliest purposes to obtain and maintain complete and accurate information on world supplies of uranium and thorium, and to bring them under its dominion.".
