Atoms for Peace
“To the making of these fateful decisions, the United States pledges before you–and therefore before the world–its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma–to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Government Gamma Gardens
It wasn’t a plot, or a secret. Scientists were proud of their efforts to ‘remake’ plants by radiation.
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Disillusionment and Demise
“…the glamour, the excitement, of the boundless possibilities of power from the peaceful atom is gone. The peaceful atom has not ushered in a ‘new world’ but has rather become a part, a minor part, of the old one.” – David Lilienthal, 1st chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
David Lilienthal, 1963