President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech: Atoms for peace after 50 years

Eisenhower's speech stands at the origins of detente after the Second World War. He recognised the dangers of nuclear weapons and offered to provide every nation who so wished all the information necessary for the peaceful applications of nuclear science if it renounced the development of a nuclear deterrent. Did this offer bring about the desired result? Was nuclear proliferation stopped? Has the civil use of the atom been attractive enough for countries to accept the exchange of the nuclear deterrent for the nuclear reactor? It should now like to elaborate on some of these questions. (orig.)