ABSTRACT
General Electric, as well as Westinghouse and others, was interested in getting on with applying nuclear energy to commercial electric power generation. By the early 1950s, there was a plethora of aspirations, plans, and invitations related to electric power production on the part of the Atomic Energy Commission and its laboratories, as well as some electric utilities. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's initiative was both timely and powerful. It clearly stimulated an ambitious rush toward nuclear power throughout the world. Outside of the United States, no other nation seems to have so completely conspired against itself on nuclear power. The United States spawned and succored the Atoms for Peace program, developed its own very impressive national version, measurably helped the international community to turn to nuclear power, and subsequently turned to thwarting the full realization by the community of US-sponsored goals.
