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Dec 2022
19m 59s

Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” Speech

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December 8, 1953. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his famous "Atoms for Peace" speech amid the escalating nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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