World Peace Council

After the war, Irene succeeded her mother as the director of the Institute of Radium. Also in 1946, she was named a commissioner for atomic energy, a position she retained for six years, during which France amassed its first atomic stockpile. After the war, she worked to promote peace as a member of the World Peace Council. She contributed her energy to women s rights as a member of the Comite National de l Union des Femmes Frangaises. 

National Research Council, Review and Evaluation of Alternative Chemical Disposal Technologies (Washington, DC National Academy Press, 1996) Tony Freemantle, The Price of Peace The World Struggles to Purge the Poison after a Cold War Chemical Weapons Binge , Houston Chronicle (23 November 1997). 

On October 20,2006, the ninth World Congress of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology was held in Seoul, Korea. On October 8,2006, North Korea had carried out a nuclear explosion in an underground test The United Nations Security Council denounced the Korean test China spoke for the first time of the need for appropriate punitive action. The contrast between the high degree of development over the past half century in South Korea compared to the mass starvation in North Korea illustrates the trade-off between the peaceful andmilitaiy uses of atomic energy, emphasized in the speech by President Eisenhower in 1953. 

Roland Vuillaume, National Independence and Peace Extracts from Speeches (Vienna Secretariat of the World Council of Peace, 1959). 

Recent world interests on nuclear energy are directed also to the peacefiil use of nuclear energy through nonproliferation and still forward to abolition of atomic bombs. An example of this movement is the speech of the US President, Barack Obama delivered in Prague on April 5,2009 (The Huffington Post 2009), who won the Nobel Peace Prize later for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples (Nobelprize.org 2009), and another example is the statement by the United Nations (UN Security Council 2009). 

August Day Before the First Explosion Which Was Huge These were the headlines Today Is Miners Day The opening of the All-Union Conference of Peace Supporters in Moscow The work of the permanent committee of the World Council of Peace Supporters and a Letter to Stalin about the fulfillment of the harvest plan in Bukhara and Chernozem regions of the Uzbek, SSR. 

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