Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest,MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2023

Posted: 2nd October 2023

When the Eisenhower administration trashed an important Truman energy plan that would have prioritized solar energy, choosing Atoms for Peace instead, that set us on the path toward the climate crisis we now face, argues Linda Pentz Gunter.

A Truman presidential commission said the US could lead the world in solar energy and that nuclear had limited utility. But there was an elephant in the room - the nuclear weapons lobby. So when President Eisenhower entered the White House, he trashed the solar plans in favor of nuclear power. Had the US led the world in a rapid expansion of truly peaceful solar energy, other countries might have followed and we likely could have prevented climate change altogether. But the nuclear (and oil) lobbies held sway. MORE

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