Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Steps For The 21st Century | Hoover Institution

Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Steps For The 21st Century | Hoover Institution: The dual nature of nuclear fission—both risk and opportunity—was recognized almost immediately after the seminal physics discoveries of the late 1930s and was articulated as a matter of policy in Eisenhower’s consequential Atoms for Peace speech in 1953. The following years and decades saw both the continued build-up of nuclear weapons arsenals, eventually reaching tens of