1950's Science and Technology | "The Atom for Progress and Peace"

Speech

By: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Date: December 8, 1953

Source: Einsenhower, Dwight D. "The Atom for Progress and Peace." An address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, December 8, 1953. Department of State Publication 5403. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954, 3–6.

About the Author: Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) was born in Denison, Texas, and graduated from West Point in 1915. During World War I he received the Distinguished Service Medal and in World War II rose to the rank of five-star general in command of all U.S. troops in Europe. In 1948 he retired from the army to become president of Columbia University. From 1953 to 1961 he was president of the United States.

Introduction

In July 1945 American physicists and engineers unleashed the power of the atom with the development of the atomic bomb. By the 1950s science...