This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

Adams for Peace,

a speech delivered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 8, 1953, during the

Cold War, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Adams for Peace. What do they have in common?

My understanding from the history is, President Eisenhower was keen on emphasizing that the secrets of the atom bomb can be shared peacefully

and that therefore there needs to be nothing like an arms race that we know developed immediately upon the Soviet Union stealing what was known about building an atomic bomb, a plutonium bomb or uranium bomb. Adams for

peace was meant to answer that. The president said, I feel impelled to speak today in a language that

in a sense is new, one which I, who have spent so much in my life in the military profession,

would have preferred never to use. The new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Adams for Peace was meant to answer that language.

There was a three-cent United States postage.

I'm looking at a picture of it.

Issued in 1955.

I'm a little older than Adams for Peace,

so I remember keenly the 50s and 60s when nuclear winter was projected in every science fiction story I read.

However, here we are in the 21st century and we're safe, or are we?

I welcome Henry Sikolsky, the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center,

because one of the responses to Adams for Peace many years later was a treaty called the

Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed by a number of responsible nations, Iran being one of them.

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