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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956, has been called "the first national political leader to take a clear-cut position for the limitation of [nuclear weapons] testing."[1] In his 1956 campaign against President Dwight Eisenhower, the former Illinois governor capitalized on widespread fear of radiation from nuclear weapons tests to propose a testing moratorium, but he had not intended to make the tests a major campaign issue at first.
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