The International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in Vienna as an autonomous organisation within the United Nations system. Its creation followed United States President Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech of 1953, which proposed an international body to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The agency helps countries use nuclear science for energy, medicine and agriculture, sets safety standards, and carries out inspections known as safeguards to check that nuclear material is not diverted to weapons. Its inspectors have played a central role in disputes over the nuclear programmes of states such as Iraq, North Korea and Iran. The agency and its director general Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Before and after
- 1957Founding of FIBA Europe
- from 1957 to 1961Sputnik programme
- 1957Construction of Central Stadium Yekaterinburg
- 1957Founding of European Economic and Social Committee
- 1957Founding of International Atomic Energy Agency
- 1957Creation of Fortran
- 1957Rise of Situationist International
- 1957Founding of Council of the European Union
- 10 January 1957Death of Gabriela Mistral
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