At Lake Success last week, U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was ready to lay down the futile burden it had carried nowhere for almost two years, and give up the ghost. Said Britain, France and the U.S. in a joint post-mortem supported by a majority of the others: "No useful purpose can be served by carrying on negotiations . . . The commission therefore recommends that . . . negotiations in the Atomic Energy Commission be suspended."
Who had killed world atom control? One after another, the delegates of seven nations—France, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Belgium, China, Colombia—pointed at Soviet Russia. Andrei...