In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech to the UN General Assembly on the risks and hopes of a nuclear future. Immediately following the speech, the United States launched an "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals and research institutions around the world. Also, in in 1953, work began to draft the statute of a new international organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The International Atomic Energy Agency was tasked with promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy and inhibiting it's use for military purposes. In October 1956, the draft was presented by a twelve-nation group, including the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1957 Eisenhower asked congress to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency with these words:
"We welcome the efforts of a number of our European friends to achieve an integrated community to develop a common market. We likewise welcome their cooperative effort in the field of atomic energy. To demonstrate once again our unalterable purpose to make of the atom a peaceful servant of humanity, I shortly shall ask the Congress to authorize full United States participation in the International Atomic Energy Agency."
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11029
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms_for_Peace
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/60-years-atoms-peace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1954
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Watch Eisenhower's Atoms For Peace speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnt7gKXUVWE
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