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In the period when the Paris Accords were negotiated and ratified ideas about military and civil uses of atomic energy were in the air in Europe. The US New Look strategy and Atoms for Peace policy were determining factors in this process.
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Memo by Schaetzel, ‘Europe and Atomic Energy’, 2 December 1955, NA/RG 59/LF 57D688, box 363
Memo by Farley ‘Notes on Proposal for European Isotope Separation Plant’ [enrichment plant], 28 November 1955, NA/RG 59/LF 57D688, box 363
Memo by Barnett, ‘Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy and European Integration’, 6 December 1955, FRUS 1955–1957, Vol. IV, 355–60
Joyce to DOS, ‘Meeting of Monnet Committee for United States of Europe and Reactions Thereto in France’, 25 January 1956, NA/RG 59/DF 840.1901, box 4403
Memo by Rodgers (about discussion with Dale), ‘U.S. Policy Guidance on European Integration’, 1 February 1956, PRO/FO 371, 122022
Memo by Edden, ‘O.E.E.C. and Euratom’, 8 February 1956, PRO/FO 371, 121950
Mollet’s Chef de Cabinet, Emile Noel, judged retrospectively: ‘It had been Jean Monnet’s wish that France (and the other five countries) should go further and collectively renounce all military use of atomic energy. Guy Mollet had taken up this idea in his statement on appointment [as Prime Minister] and his Foreign Minister, Christian Pineau, had raised the question at the first meeting of the Six Ministers of Foreign Affairs in which he took part (February 1956). He reported immediately thereafter to Guy Mollet and the other Socialist Ministers at their weekly meeting on Tuesday evening. None of the other Five Ministers had supported such a formulation, the general view being that it was not wise to make a unilateral concession of that kind; it smacked of a gratuitous gesture from which the Soviet Union would derive advantage in the negotiations on general disarmament, without having made any concession in return. The continuation of defence research in the Commissariat àl’énergie atomique (which Guy Mollet was to confirm publicly during the debate in the National Assembly at the beginning of July 1956) was the outcome of the negative conclusion of this discussion among the Six’. Noël 1989, 375
L. Strauss to Dulles, 13 April 1956, with annex ‘Action in the Field of Atomic Energy to Encourage Integration of the Community of the Six’, FRUS 1955–1957, Vol. IV, 423–9
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Skogmar, G. (2004). Euratom and the Linkage to the Common Market: First Phase. In: The United States and the Nuclear Dimension of European Integration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505452_5
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