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The article focuses on the program prepared by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for the Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Switzerland. Thus, looking toward presentation at Geneva, several thousand organizations associated in some way with atomic energy were invited to submit for review abstracts of papers for submission to the United Nations. Moreover, all papers submitted to and accepted by the United Nations, including the American papers will be published in full in the conference proceedings. According to the author, Geneva will mark the first time that all available technical information on the constructive uses of atomic energy has been assembled in one place and where specialists from eighty countries have been able to convene.

The article reports issues and topics related to the United Nations Conference on Atomic Energy held on August 8 to 20, 1955, in Geneva, Switzerland. According to the event's organizers, the final count of papers accepted for the conference was 1,061, with 460 scheduled to be presented orally at one of the 60 sessions. The range of subjects is shown by the titles of the six volumes which will contain the published papers including "Safety Aspects of Nuclear Reactors," "Power Reactors," "Research Reactors," "Nuclear Fuels," "Atomic Raw Materials," and "Applications of Nuclear Radiation in Food and Agriculture."

The article presents information on the International Institute for Labor Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The institute is an international center for the scientific study of labor problems through research and education. A brief account of the institute's history, membership, organization, scope of interest, publications and financial support is given in the article. The institute was created by the United Nations International Labor Organization in 1960 and has put most of its efforts into an educational program. The board of the institute deals with program and budgetary policy matters and usually meets once a year in February. The institute is concerned specifically within its sphere of interest with education for leadership responsibility, research into trends and emerging problems, and discussion of choices and issues in public policy. Institute publications include studies carried out under its auspices, books based upon symposia convened by the institute and educational materials developed in institute courses.