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When Eisenhower became President in 1953, he began planning a bizarre and dangerous national effort known as “Atoms for Peace.” It was nothing less than a campaign to show the peaceful benefits of atom bombs, the program would use the nation’s nuclear arsenal to blast new mines, lakes, harbors, a new canal across Panama, and control the weather. Even more, the United States Air Force hatched an audacious scheme to develop a nuclear-powered super bomber that could stay in the air for weeks at a time would become the ultimate guarantor of world peace. All through the harnessing of the new idol created from the invisible atom. This is something few Americans ever heard of but should never forget.
