The Far Horizon

Concerns about secret underground nuclear weapons facilities regularly make the news, but did you know that the idea of peaceful use of nuclear energy masking a secret weapons facility is as old as atomic power itself? United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his speech, “Atoms for Peace”,  to the United Nations General Assembly on December 8, 1953 in part to propose the creation of a United Nations international atomic agency. This short story was finished on February 27, 1954. Today Eisenhower’s speech, and the eponymous American program it ushered in, are seen as propaganda from the Cold War.

The Far Horizon recounts the peaceful use of atomic power for water desalinization and pumping to the inland desert of California for agricultural purposes, and the project’s visit by a team of United Nations inspectors just prior to signatory of Eisenhower’s envisioned UN treaty. The descriptions of the UN staff are spot on accurate for today's UN.

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