Ike’s Atoms For Peace program started Iran on the road to nuclear energy
June 21st, 2009 at 03:33am Chuck Sweeny
The neocons are whipped into a frenzy over Iran’s nuclear program and Obama’s assertion that Iran, like other countries, should be able to develop peaceful nuclear power.
Know whose policy that is? Dwight D. Eisenhower’s, that’s who. Ike created the Atoms For Peace program in 1953, designed to help nations get started on the road to nuclear energy.
Read about it in The New Statesman
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