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'Atoms for Peace' was given during the Cold War, when fear that the world would end in atomic warfare was at its height, due to the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States.
It tried to assure the world that the US was committed to peacetime and finding non-violent uses of atomic energy.
"I know that the American people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all. [...] I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new, one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
This phrase aptly captures the tension of the Cold War.
"To pause there would be to confirm the hopeless finality of a belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world. To stop there would be to accept hope -- helplessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the annihilation of the irreplaceable heritage of mankind handed down to use generation from generation, and the condemnation of mankind to begin all over again the age-old struggle upward from savagery toward decency, and right, and justice. Surely no sane member of the human race could discover victory in such desolation."
This shows the total, utter destruction that would come from an exchange of atomic bombs.
This emphasizes how far we've come and how we should be above this.
This passage is my favourite because it uses such powerful language, practically painting a picture of the tense situation and the bleak future that would follow if it all collapsed. It serves to highlight the alternative to the peace proposed by Eisenhower