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- Event
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- Nuclear
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- Diplomacy
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category: "Diplomacy"
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summary: "1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge."
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date: 1955
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location: "Geneva, Switzerland"
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The Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy was a major international scientific conference held in [[Geneva]] in 1955. More than fifteen hundred delegates from seventy nations, including [[Israel]], whose delegation was led by [[Ernst David Bergmann]], took part. [[Lewis L. Strauss]] publicly joined the Israeli delegation in prayer during this conference, despite his private feelings about Zionism.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7. |