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Atoms for Peace
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was determined to solve "the fearful atomic dilemma" by finding some way by which "the miraculous inventiveness of man" would not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life. In his Atoms for Peace speech before the United Nations General Assembly on December 8, 1953, President Eisenhower sought to solve this terrible problem by suggesting a means to transform the atom from a scourge into a benefit for mankind. Although not as well known as his warning about the "military industrial complex," voiced later in his farewell radio and television address to the American people, President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech embodied his most important nuclear initiative as President. From it sprang a panoply of peaceful atomic programs. With it President Eisenhower placed the debate over the control of nuclear science and technology, which had largely been the province of government officials and contractors, squarely before the public. Indeed, the present public controversy over nuclear technology and its role in American society can be traced back to President Eisenhower's determination that control of nuclear science was an issue for all Americans.
- Atoms for Peace Draft
- Chronology of Atoms for Peace Project
- Eisenhowers Reaction to the Repplier Proposal
- General Outline for Agronsky Program
- Letter to Eisenhower on H.R. 9757 to Amend the Atomic Energy Act
- Letter, Ann Whitman to Marie McCrum
- Letter, C.D. Jackson to Merlo Pusey
- Letter, Charles Robbins to C.D. Jackson
- Letter, Eisenhower to Churchill
- Letter, Eisenhower to Swede Hazlett
- Memo From Theodore Repplier, Advertising Council
- Memo of Conversation Regarding Bermuda Meeting
- Memo of Meeting Regarding Bermuda
- Memo Regarding Operation Candor pdf
- Memo, Eisenhower to C.D. Jackson
- Memo, Norberg to H.S. Craig Regarding Project Candon
- Memo, Strauss to President, Regarding Proposal of Nuclear Sharing
- News Clipping, Eisenhower Pushes Operation Candor
- Operations Coordinating Board Walking Draft
- Preliminary Prop. International Org. to Further Peaceful Atomic Energy
- Press Release, Atoms for Peace Speech
- Press Wire, Soviet Bloc Reaction to Eisenhowers U.N. Speech
- 72-1031-1 (NPS) August 30, 1954 - Eisenhower signs H.R. 9757
- 72-1582-1 (NPS)January 13, 1956 - Eisenhower with five of his top advisers who he summoned to discuss his Atoms for Peace program.
- 72-595-11 (United Nations) December 8, 1953 - Eisenhower delivering his Atoms for Peace speech before the U.N. General Assembly.
- 72-767-1 (NPS) March 30,1954 - Eisenhower receives a report from Lewis L. Strauss
- 72-773 (NPS) March 31, 1954 - Eisenhower and Lewis L. Strauss face questioners at a press conference.