Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace PDF
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The Library of Presidential Rhetoric Martin J. Medhurst, General Editor James R. Andrews Thomas W. Benson Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Stephen E. Lucas David Zarefsky ’ Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Texas A&M University Press : College Station Copyright © by Ira Chernus Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, .-. Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Material from the Raymond Moley Papers is used with permission of the Hoover Institution Archives. Cover illustration and frontispiece: Eisenhower at the United Nations, . Courtesy Herb Scharfman/TimePix. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicaion Data Chernus, Ira, – Eisenhower’s atoms for peace / Ira Chernus.—st ed. p. cm. — (The library of presidential rhetoric) Contains Eisenhower’s “Atoms for peace” address, given at the United Nations, on December , . Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ––– (cloth : alk. paper) — ––– (pbk. : alk. paper) . Nuclear energy—Government policy—United States—History— Sources. . Nuclear energy—Government policy—United States— History. . Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), –— Oratory. . Speeches, addresses, etc., American. . United States— Foreign relations—–. . United States—Politics and government—–. . Title. . Series. . .''–dc Contents Acknowledgments Text of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” Speech Introduction The Oppenheimer Panel The Origins of Operation Candor Candor and the New Look From Candor to “Atoms for Peace” The Final Text and Its Interpreters Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments This book is part of my ongoing study of Eisenhower’s discourse and ideology. In the course of that work, I have received valuable critical responses and advice from a number of generous historians, includ- ffl ing Stephen E. Ambrose, Richard H. Immerman, Melvyn Le er, Bob ff McMahon, Martin Sherwin, Geo rey Smith, David Patterson, Charles Chatfield, Michael Hunt, Robert Schulzinger, Thomas Zeiler, Linda Killen, Klaus Larres, Kenneth Osgood, Andrew Johnston, and Bruce Pickering. I especially appreciate the continuing support of three out- standing scholars of political rhetoric and communication: Martin J. Medhurst, Bryan Taylor, and Robert L. Ivie. Matthew Wittman was an invaluable research assistant. fi I gratefully acknowledge nancial support from the University of Colorado at Boulder, through its Council for Research and Creative Work, its Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities, and its Twen- tieth Century Humanities Fund, and from the Eisenhower World Af- fairs Institute. I also greatly appreciate the assistance of archivists at the Eisenhower Library—particularly Dwight Strandberg—the Seeley Mudd Library of Princeton University, and the National Security Ar- chives. As always, my deepest appreciation is for Ann and Miguel.
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