# Atoms for Peace, page 2: what the 1955 treaty promised the Philippines Page 2 of a U.S. Information Agency Atoms for Peace set from 1956. It reports the 27 July 1955 agreement that made the Philippines, in the sheet's words, "the first Asian nation" in the program, and lists four things it would receive, among them up to six kilograms of uranium-235 (NAID 6948911). - Home - Archive - Atoms for Peace, page 2: what the 1955 treaty promised the Philippines Atoms for Peace poster, page 2: Philippines treaty (English-text poster, Philippines subject) Atoms for Peace, page 2: what the 1955 treaty promised the Philippines USIA Atoms for Peace poster, page 2, 1956: the July 1955 US-Philippines agreement, reactor data, enriched uranium, radioisotopes and training. NARA RG ## Techniques named on the archive record TransferGlittering generalities DateApril 10, 1956Made byU.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East seriesMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeEisenhower AdministrationNARANAID 5051202; NAID 6948911; Record Group 306SourceUnidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosureSourceU.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East (NAID 5051202) , retrieved October 4, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306) U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 10, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948911, 306-PPB-81b). Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records. Full record at propagandaarchive.org Page 2 of a U.S. Information Agency Atoms for Peace set from 1956. It reports the 27 July 1955 agreement that made the Philippines, in the sheet's words, "the first Asian nation" in the program, and lists four things it would receive, among them up to six kilograms of uranium-235 (NAID 6948911). ## What the sheet prints A two-page spread in blue and grey. On one side, a photograph of two men signing at a table, and a numbered list with a small drawing beside each item. On the other, a photograph of a book presentation and a stack of shipping crates. The page number, 2, is at the lower left. THIS TREATY WILL ENABLE THE PHILIPPINES TO RECEIVE: 1 REACTOR Information regarding design, construction and operation of research reactors and their use in medicine, engineering research and development. 2 URANIUM Up to six kilograms of Uranium-235 enriched up to a maximum of 20% to serve as initial and replacement fuel in operating a research reactor. 3 RADIOISOTOPES Information on the use of radioactive isotopes in physical and biological research, medical therapy, agriculture, and industry. 4 EDUCATION Training for more Filipinos in the operation of atomic reactors, use of radioisotopes and other peaceful products of the atom, including nuclear power. […] Inspired by President Eisenhower's proposal calling for world-wide cooperation to harness atomic energy for the benefit of all peoples, the Philippines signed a treaty with the U.S. on July 27, 1955, and became the first Asian nation to join in the "Atoms For Peace" program. FRAME transcription, line-end hyphens joined. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 6948911, local id 306-PPB-81b, in the series NAID 5051202. The captions name the signers: Minister Raul Leuterio, chargé d'affaires of the Philippine Embassy in Washington, and Walter S. Robertson, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. A second photograph shows Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs Raul S. Manglapus receiving volumes from the U.S. Ambassador, Homer Ferguson, at the hand-over of a technical library on nuclear energy on 29 November 1955. The text adds that training of Filipino scientists in the United States had begun before the signing. ## Who issued it The National Archives files the sheet with the U.S. Information Agency's posters for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East (Record Group 306), catalog date 10 April 1956. It is the second page of a set. Page 1 opens with Eisenhower's December 1953 pledge at the United Nations and says the set is a supplement to the magazine Free World. Pages 3 to 6 cover Filipino grantees, a primer on atomic energy, hospitals and factories, and farms and power. The sheet itself names no American agency. FRAME classes the source as blurred. ## How to read it FRAME tags it transfer and glittering generalities: the President's proposal and a signing ceremony lend the program their standing, and only benefits are listed. That is fair. The list is also unusually concrete for a poster. It gives a quantity of fuel, an enrichment ceiling, and the kind of reactor the fuel was for. A reader in Manila could hold the government to those numbers. What a reader could not learn here is what the Philippines owed in return, what rules came with the fuel, or who would inspect its use. The poster calls the agreement a treaty and reports its "features," then sends the reader to the photographs. A citizen in either country judging the deal would need the agreement's text, which the poster does not reproduce. The program was real and its offer was open: books, training, and research fuel, announced in public by two governments under their own names. Its fault is one many sheets in this file share: no American agency is named on the poster itself. Page 4 of the set, What Is Atomic Energy?, explains the science with a jeepney. The full set is in the atomic age gallery. ## Sources - FRAME object record, Atoms for Peace poster, page 2: Philippines treaty (English-text poster, Philippines subject). Catalog date April 10, 1956. - U.S. National Archives, Record Group 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East (series NAID 5051202), item NAID 6948911, 306-PPB-81b, catalog.archives.gov, retrieved by the archive 4 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work). Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/atoms-for-peace-poster-page-2-philippines-treaty-1956/