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OFF-SITE EVENT: Sixty Years of Atoms for Peace

The Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, in collaboration with the Wilson Center's Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, will host a panel discussion on the 60th anniversary of U.S. President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech to the United Nationals General Assembly. The discussion will be held off-site at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue on 6 December 2013 at 6:00PM. Speakers include Joseph Pilat, Odette Jankowitsch, Elisabeth Röhrlich, and Oliver Rathkolb.

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Friday
Dec. 6, 2013
12:00pm – 3:00pm ET
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60 Years of Atoms for Peace

Vienna, 6 December 2013 | 6 p.m.
Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue

On 8 December 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the establishment of an organization for the peaceful use of atomic energy in his famous “Atoms for Peace” speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Eisenhower’s proposal eventually led to the founding of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957, the oldest and largest international organization in Vienna/Austria. Even today, Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech remains at the heart of debates over nuclear energy and non-proliferation.

The panel discussion on “60 Years of Atoms for Peace” is organized by the IAEA History Research Project (Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna) in cooperation with the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.). The discussion will be held off-site at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue on 6 December 2013 at 6 p.m. For more information, please contact Magdalena Reitbauer.


Panelists:

JOESEPH F. PILAT, Program Manager, Los Alamos Laboratory; Global Fellow and Co-Director, Non-Proliferation Forum, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

ODETTE JANKOWITSCH, Lecturer on international nuclear law; former Head of Section IAEA Division for External Relation and Senior Legal Officer IAEA Office of Legal Affairs

ELISABETH RÖHRLICH, Researcher and Lecturer, IAEA History Research Project, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna

Chair:

OLIVER RATHKOLB, Professor, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Head of the IAEA History Research Project


Please RSVP by contacting:

Magdalena Reitbauer
Department of Contemporary History
University of Vienna
Spitalgasse 2–4 / Hof 1
A–1090 Vienna
Magdalena.Reitbauer@univie.ac.at

 

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Nuclear Proliferation International History Project

The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project is a global network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of international nuclear history through archival documents, oral history interviews, and other empirical sources. At the Wilson Center, it is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program.  Read more

History and Public Policy Program

The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs.  Read more

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