Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism

In a dramatic moment before the United Nations, Bernard Baruch described the American plan to internationalize and control the atom. He described in biblical fashion the choice between “the quick from the dead” (taken from the Apostle’s Creed) resulting from the global spread of nuclear weapons. This prediction came to fruition 15 years later when presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a warning in the third debate with Vice President Richard Nixon: