The United Nations plan would take effect by “stages”—one stage to
include, among other projects, a world-wide geological survey, another
stage, to involve, among other projects, the taking over of atomic
installations, and still another to bring about the disposition of
fissionable materials.
At what point in some such progression would national stockpiles of
deuterium and tritium be placed under control? When this point was
reached, would they be destroyed or be held in storage under United
Nations auspices? If a nation pretended to make known its entire
stockpile of tritium and deuterium while actually it kept hidden a
substantial portion, how would the international agency discover such a
violation?