Atoms for Peace speech

        December 8, 1953 United Nations | New York | nuclear: power

At the UN General Assembly, U.S. President Eisenhower gives his Atoms for Peace speech, proposing an international atomic energy agency on nuclear power and suggesting a conversion of uranium weapons stockpiles to fissionable reactor fuel to "hasten the day when fear of the atom will begin to dissapear from the minds of the people." [24:51]