When President Barack Obama's efforts at arms control last month included a new arms reductions treaty with Russia and a Nuclear Security Summit of world leaders in Washington, DC, I noticed only Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" compared this meeting to the original meeting of the United Nations more than 60 years ago which, ironically, began with a call for the elimination of atomic weapons, all of which reminded me of the senior essay I wrote to get my undergraduate history degree on the failed attempt at international control of atomic weapons at the end of World War II, as I explain in this video. The clip I use of Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" comes from the April 14, 2010, segment titled "A Farewell to Arms" available using the Comedy Central video player page at www.thedailyshow.com The image I show of my own 1990 senior essay titled "LOST OPPORTUNITIES: An Examination of the Attempt at International Control of Atomic Weapons at the End of World War II" comes from my own webpage at liberalviewer.com The public domain image I use of Josef Stalin and Harry Truman comes from the wikimedia commons page at commons.wikimedia.org The public domain image I use of Bernard Baruch comes from the wikimedia commons page at commons.wikimedia.org The public domain image I use of Henry Stimson comes from the wikimedia commons page at commons.wikimedia.org The image I use of my own December 25, 2008, YouTube video titled "Hiroshima: Right or Wrong?" comes from the <b>...</b>
Author: LiberalViewer
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