that “governments principally involved, to the extent permitted by elementary prudence, should begin now and continue to make joint contributions from their stockpiles of normal uranium and fissionable material to an international atomic energy agency.”
Iran, Israel, India and Pakistan were among those countries which benefited from Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” programme. that only less than ten countries have acknowledged producing nuclear weapons. Today, the implementation of the former US president’s programme is still subject to criticism for facilitating nuclear proliferation by spreading dual use nuclear technology and materials, such as highly enriched uranium, used in early civilian nuclear programmes that can also be used for the production of nuclear weapons.
Tehran’s desire to invest in a nuclear programme dates back to the 1950s, when the country's autocratic ruler Reza Shah Pahlavi, or the Shah of Iran, signed a treaty with the US in which Washington would help Tehran to build its nuclear programme. programme, Iran, a US ally under the Shah's rule, received nuclear assistance from Washington from 1957 to 1979 for 'peaceful' purposes.
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