"At a time when America had a monopoly of atomic weapons and offered through the Baruch Plan to internationalize the supply of atomic power, I thought this a wise and, at that time, generous suggestion. I thought and I said privately, though not publicly, that the United States would be justified in bringing pressure to bear on Russia to agree to the internationalizing of atomic energy and I thought that Russia would almost certainly yield to such pressure, since the Soviet Union had as yet no atomic arms of its own. If the Baruch Plan had been accepted, the world would not be in the dangerous position that it is in at present."