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