Atoms for Peace
1953 speech by US President Eisenhower / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new—one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.[1]
The United States then launched an "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions within the U.S. and throughout the world. The first nuclear reactors in Israel[2] and Islamabad in Pakistan [citation needed] were built under the program by American Machine and Foundry, a company more commonly known as a major manufacturer of bowling equipment.