JFK PROPOSES NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy proposed a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty in his commencement address to graduates of American University here in the Nation's Capital.
The President announced that talks would soon begin in Moscow between American, British and Soviet representatives to work out a test ban treaty.
President Kennedy said that the treaty would help provide hope for a "genuine peace," and...
"In the final analysis our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we cherish our children's future and we are all mortal."
John Horgan argues that while
most people today view JFK's optimism as naive,"overwhelming
evidence...reveals that war is a relatively recent cultural invention."
SOURCES
"Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963," www.jfklibrary.org/
"Fifty Years Later, JFK's 'Peace Speech' Still Inspires and Has Been Scientifically Validated," by John Horgan, June 10, 2013, Scientific American, www.blogs.scientificamerican.com/
