On December 8, 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed in a
speech to the United Nations that nuclear nonproliferation be
promoted by offering peaceful nuclear technology to countries that
would renounce nuclear weapons. Today the value of that basic
trade-off -- atoms for peace -- is in question, along with the
institutions that embody it. Deployment of weapons by India and
Pakistan, noncompliance with safeguards by North Korea and Iran,
and the threat of nuclear terrorism have weakened the image of the
Nonproliferation Treaty. And new proposals and technologies for
peaceful uses of nuclear power are coming forward, though they are
accompanied by the realization that 1950s hopes for nuclear energy
"too cheap to meter" were unrealistic.
The twenty-five contributors to Atoms for Peace grapple in many
ways with nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and the future
of nuclear energy. They include officials and scientists from a
wide range of agencies and institutions. Among them are officials
or former officials from Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Canada, Korea,
and Japan, from the U.S. departments of state, energy, and defense,
the U.S. Senate, the National Security Council, the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, the International Atomic Energy
Agency, the United Nations, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, MIT, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, the College of William and Mary, and
the University of California.
Atoms for Peace also includes a set of fundamental speeches and
documents relating to Atoms for Peace and its institutions.
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