Atoms for Peace: The New International Atomic Energy Agency

Authors

Bernhard G. Bechhoefer, Foreign Service Officer detailed to U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as Chief of International Atomic Energy Agency Branch, Division of International AffairsFollow
Eric Stein, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

On October 26, 1956 seventy states signed an international agreement described as the Statute of an International Atomic Energy Agency. This signing followed a conference of over a month in which eighty-two states participated. All of the participating states supported the text which resulted from this conference-a truly remarkable result considering that the subject of the conference was atomic energy with its far-reaching international security implications.

Recommended Citation

Bernhard G. Bechhoefer & Eric Stein, Atoms for Peace: The New International Atomic Energy Agency, 55 Mich. L. Rev. 747 (1957).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol55/iss6/2