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category: Diplomacy
date: 1955
location: Geneva, Switzerland
summary: 1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from
  70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge.
tags:
- Event
- Nuclear
- Diplomacy
---

The Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy was a major international scientific conference held in Geneva in 1955. More than fifteen hundred delegates from seventy nations, including [Israel](/places/israel/), whose delegation was led by [Ernst David Bergmann](/people/ernst-david-bergmann/), took part. [Lewis L. Strauss](/people/lewis-l-strauss/) publicly joined the Israeli delegation in prayer during this conference, despite his private feelings about Zionism.[^1]

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7.