This section documents nuclear energy’s development into a globally prominent energy source.

• "Atoms for Peace" Address by Dwight Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly, December 8, 1953
• Report by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on the Need for Nuclear Power

• Declaration by President Truman and Prime Ministers Atlee and King, November 15, 1945
• Minutes of the United States Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Council, October 28-30, 1949
• Report of the United States Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Council, October 30, 1949
• Meeting 1377 of the Atomic Energy Commission, May 28, 1958
• Propsed AEC Licensing Procedure and Related Legislation, June-July, 1971
• Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee versus the US Atomic Energy Commission, July 23, 1971
• US and Russian Plutonium Disposition: The Trilateral Initiative By Carah Ong
• Background to IAEA Safegaurd Agreements
• The IAEA as a Safeguards Regime, by Kalpana Chittaranjan
• Statement by Hans Blix to the Fortieth Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, September 16, 1996