page_title: Atoms for Peace
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Atoms for Peace / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: During a special session of the IAEA's 1356th Board of Governors meeting, the Board Chairperson Mr. John Barrett, (front row, second from right), welcomes Member States delegates at the IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria, 31 July 2013. From left to right: Ms. Janice Dunn Lee, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, IAEA Board Chairperson John Barrett, and Ms. Aruni Wijewardane, IAEA Secretary Policy Making Organs. Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
context_page_description: "Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.
  I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new – one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use.
  That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
  The United States then launched an "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions within the U.S. and throughout the world. The first nuclear reactors in Israel and Pakistan in Islamabad were built under the program by American Machine and Foundry, a company more commonly known as a major manufacturer of bowling equipment.
context_section_description: Atoms for Peace created the ideological background for the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, but also gave political cover for the U.S. nuclear weapons build-up, and the backdrop to the Cold War arms race. Under Atoms for Peace related programmes the U.S. exported over 25 tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to 30 countries, mostly to fuel research reactors, which is now regarded as a proliferation and terrorism risk. Under a similar program, the Soviet Union exported over 11 tons of HEU.
caption: The "Atoms for Peace" slogan still in use above the panel at a 2013 IAEA meeting
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