A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch.

“Atoms for Peace” was born of a speech President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered in 1953, in which he warned of the dangers of a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.Credit...Corbis, via Getty Images

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By Michael Crowley

Reporting from Washington