Jun 2, 2026 · 37 min · 14 segments
In the United Nations’ early years, Secretary-General Trygve Lie negotiated with governments to stop the nuclear arms race. But today, the code that could reshape civilization is owned by private…
Jasmin BaoumyHost
Noor LaikGuest
Max StaufferGuest
Philip ThigoGuest
Mark Malloch BrownHostreport was passed on to the president and he appointed a Wall Street financier named Bernard Baruch to craft it in a fashion so it was ready to submit to the United Nations.
Baruch invited Oppenheimer to be his scientific advisor, but Oppenheimer refused.
He could be very sweet and patient with students and strangers he met in the street, but with someone like Bernard Baruch, he couldn't stand the man.
Baruch created an international atomic authority that would allow the United States to maintain its atomic monopoly would bar the Soviets from developing a weapon, would impose a draconian punishment on any nation that violated the agreement.
When Baruch took his proposal to the United Nations, he got a really quick response.
At once, Russia's Andrei Gromyko said his country would not relinquish its right of veto in the control of atomic power.
It led to what Oppenheimer feared, an arms race at the very beginning of the Cold War that became quite dangerous.
He launched a global peace tour, flying from capital to capital and making his case to world leaders.
I have no doubt that the choice of the majority of people everywhere, they are for the United Nations.
Nor do I believe that any government wants war.
But the continuance of the Cold War is making the United Nations system more and more unworkable, and thus is undermining its usability for governments and the confidence in it of peoples.
Dag Hammarskjöld, I wish you from the bottom of my heart, welcome to New York and to the United Nations headquarters.
You are going to take over the most impossible job on earth.
report was passed on to the president and he appointed a Wall Street financier named Bernard Baruch to craft it in a fashion so it was ready to submit to the United Nations.
Baruch invited Oppenheimer to be his scientific advisor, but Oppenheimer refused.
He could be very sweet and patient with students and strangers he met in the street, but with someone like Bernard Baruch, he couldn't stand the man.
Baruch created an international atomic authority that would allow the United States to maintain its atomic monopoly would bar the Soviets from developing a weapon, would impose a draconian punishment on any nation that violated the agreement.
When Baruch took his proposal to the United Nations, he got a really quick response.
At once, Russia's Andrei Gromyko said his country would not relinquish its right of veto in the control of atomic power.
It led to what Oppenheimer feared, an arms race at the very beginning of the Cold War that became quite dangerous.
He launched a global peace tour, flying from capital to capital and making his case to world leaders.
I have no doubt that the choice of the majority of people everywhere, they are for the United Nations.
Nor do I believe that any government wants war.
But the continuance of the Cold War is making the United Nations system more and more unworkable, and thus is undermining its usability for governments and the confidence in it of peoples.
Dag Hammarskjöld, I wish you from the bottom of my heart, welcome to New York and to the United Nations headquarters.
You are going to take over the most impossible job on earth.
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