On this day, President Eisenhower spoke before the UN General Assembly to promote the peaceful, positive applications of nuclear discoveries. Instead of weapons, why not harness nuclear fission to provide electricity! Given how much I think Ike was one of America’s lamest presidents, in short, he was an ass in a chair for eight years. When he wasn’t sitting, he was playing golf or shtupping his mistress. We can definitely blame this asshole for why every POTUS going forward (with Carter as an exception) loves to play this eco-terrorist activity designed for rich douchebags to flaunt their greed, keep down the poors via “clubs” while wasting water and land. It’s also no shock Nixon and Trump cheat.
But putting the Soviet Union on their heels by promoting nuclear reactors was a rare smart move from a rather cowardly, do-nothing guy. It got people thinking how fission was the future. Many believed we’d have mini-reactors attached to our houses, etc. The world of The Jetsons! This also led to the creation of the IAEA a few years later. Today the IAEA leads the charge in developing fusion which will be too late since Climate Change had its coming out debutante ball this Summer, declaring the wait is over. I’m still glad he had an indirect hand in this outcome. Fission-driven power plants remain the worst for obvious reasons: nobody has a good solution for the radioactive waste they create and it doesn’t matter if they’re managed by Kapitalism (AynRandism) or Communism (Stalinism), the human race lacks the maturity to operate one safely.