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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

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The Importance of International Control

The Beruch plan would have opened the world's nuclear weapons to inspection by any agency that was set up. The inspections would not be at the convenience of the country, but whenever the inspectors felt they needed to inspect. If one country tried clandestinely to begin to build bombs, you would know about it at the time of the next inspection. It might have worked, but there were two big problems. No country is gonna allow a monopoly on a nuclear weapon,. At least no major power. So the Russians were not willing to sign on from the beginning. They just couldn't. How could they? We would not have; we would not have had to.

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