Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation. Some of the mutations produced thereby have turned out to be useful. Typically this is gamma radiation – in which
Former Atomic Gardening Society President Muriel Howorth shows popular garden writer Beverley Nichols a two-foot-high (61 cm) peanut plant grown from an irradiated nut in her own backyard.
"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.
Atomic gardening
…in 1984, accounted for more than three quarters of the grapefruit produced in Texas by 2007. Beginning in the 1950s, atomic gardens were a part of "Atoms for Peace", an American program to develop peaceful uses of fission energy after World War II. Gamma gardens were established in laboratories in the United States…
American commemorative stamp of 1955 in allusion to the program Atoms for Peace
"Atoms for Peace" 3 cent U.S. stamp presentation with President Eisenhower in 1955
At the rostrum of the Palais des Nations' Assembly hall for the opening of the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. (Left to right) Max Petitpierre, President of the Swiss Confederation, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, Homi J. Bhabha of India, President of the Conference, and Walter G. Whitman from the United States, Conference Secretary General
The "Atoms for Peace" slogan still in use above the panel at a 2013 IAEA meeting