Editorial Note
On Labor Day, September 6, groundbreaking ceremonies were held at Shippingport, Pennsylvania, for the first commercial atomic power plant designed to produce electricity for 100,000 persons. The ceremonies were marked by a brief address from the President at Denver, Colorado, and by longer remarks by Chairman Strauss of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and Representative W. Sterling Cole of New York, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. The addresses were concerned with the international ramifications of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and all three speakers addressed themselves to the subject of the recent international agreement to proceed with the formation [Page 1512] of an “international agency which will foster the growth and spread of the new atomic technology for peaceful use.” The speeches cited above are all printed in U.S. Senate, 84th Cong., 1st sess., Atoms for Peace Manual, pages 253–257. The President’s remarks are also printed in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954, pages 840–841.