The Age Atomic

“I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new… That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

“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.

“But the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might are not ours alone.”

- “Atoms for Peace” US President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly, December 8th, 1953