TONIGHT: The show begins at the United Nations for POTUS Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech to the General Assembly, proposing an internationalization of uranium and plutonium in order to harness nuclear power under close supervision. Then the show tr
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
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| 0:27.0 | Good evening. The show begins tonight at the United Nations in December of |
| 0:33.2 | 1953, a speech by then President Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 0:38.3 | to the Assembly, everyone very carefully paying attention, Labeled afterwards, Adams for Peace. The President |
| 0:46.0 | laid out the nuclear weapons that the U.S. possessed, the fact that the Soviet Union then had |
| 0:52.0 | a nuclear weapon on many weapons and the |
| 0:55.2 | president was looking for a way to talk about nuclear weapons not as a weapon of |
| 0:59.6 | war to destroy cities but as a weapon of peace of power to my understanding from |
| 1:05.0 | understanding from conversation with Henry Sikalski who helped me on this story |
| 1:10.0 | there was no at that point any nuclear power plant on the planet. |
| 1:15.0 | They would come in the following years of the 50s, great expectations. |
| 1:19.0 | I told Henry the story of how, I believe on my 13th birthday I received a model, you know the |
| 1:26.0 | building model like airplanes ships a model of the shipping port |
| 1:29.4 | Pennsylvania nuclear reactor the first to understanding, turned into a model. I was always |
| 1:35.7 | disappointed with myself that I wasn't able to put it all together. I spilled plastic |
| 1:41.0 | glue on the transparency piece that was meant to be over the reactor core and |
| 1:49.8 | never really recovered from that blow. I don't know where the model went, but in any event, |
| 1:54.9 | atoms for peace. And 70 years later, we have tens of thousands of weapons and no end in sight. I then turn to a conversation with |
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