Rhetorical Analysis Of Dwight Eisenhower's Speech

In 2011 there was a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima due to a tsunami and an earthquake. There was word-wide horror at the amount of radiation that escaped from Fukashima’s reactors; however, that amount was minimal when compared to the degree of radiation that fell on Japan in the nuclear bombings of 1945. And yet, getting the world to transition from destructive nuclear bombs to progressive nuclear power required much convincing. There was a speech given by a modest man, who, at the time, was the President of the United States. This speech drastically aided in the transition, and that man was Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s reinforced diction successfully appealed to unity, while it left room for detailing the consequences of failure to come together and creating a more complex reputation for the United States.
The General Assembly of the United Nations received Eisenhower’s speech on December 8, 1953. In this speech he introduced an idea that was beneficial to the entire world: A conversion from the power to destroy with nuclear energy to the power to make a profit with nuclear-generated electricity. Now, this was a big …show more content…
“Atomic bombs today are more than twenty-five times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age dawned, while hydrogen weapons are in the ranges of millions of tons of TNT equivalent” (Atoms for Peace). If the audience had not understood the basis of what he was talking about, then the entire speech would have been a waste of time. If the fundamentals of a conversation are not understood, then there is no point in even having the conversation. Eisenhower wanted the entire world to be able to understand what he had to say about creating peace even though the knowledge of constructing atomic weapons existed. He wanted to ease the worries of every man, woman, and child within ear’s reach of