Dwight D. Eisenhower: Atoms for Peace Speech - Milestone Documents

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Atoms for Peace Speech

( 1953 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

Glossary

  • aegis protection
  • colossi giants
  • elementary prudence simple common sense
  • Security Council the United Nations body responsible for maintaining international security
  • thermo-nuclear reactions fusion, or the joining of atomic nuclei, which produces an even more powerful weapon reactions (the so-called hydrogen bomb) than fission, or splitting
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