Baruch Plan

In early 1946, the United States tried to head off the impending nuclear race, proposing the Baruch Plan that all weapons-related development and production be placed under the control of a special U.N. atomic agency. Once international enforcement was in place, the United States would dispose of its stockpile of atomic weapons. (America: a concise history. pg. 769)

The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946. The United States, Great Britain and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David Lilienthal to draw up a plan.