On December 8, 1953 President Eisenhower, freshly arrived from the Bermuda Conference, addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on the subject of Nuclear Peril.
Pres. Eisenhower: On July 16th 1945 the United States set off the worlds first Atomic explosion. Since that date in 1945 the United State of America has conducted 42 test explosions. 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 range of millions of tons of TNT equivalent. Today the United States stockpile of Atomic weapons, which of course increases daily, exceeds by many times the total equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theater of war in all of the years of World War 2.”
It was this sort of information we grew to be all too familiar with, throughout the Cold War period. That constant state of fear that somehow, somewhere the annihilation would start.
And you wonder why the 60's were so wacko?
