Many believe that this largely determined the rules for a new kind of war, the cold war.
President Eisenhower continued that the U.S. would never want to be identified by a single page in the "book of history" but the entire book. He said that the country doesn't want to be destructive, but constructive. It wants concurrence, not wars. That this country wants to live in freedom and know that people of other nations can enjoy the right of living life the way they choose.
The world was a scary place a little more than a decade after the "date that will live in infamy," with many people digging back yard bomb shelters. Drills at school had children practicing "duck and cover" during school drills. When World War II ended the feelings were bitter-sweet because while one major crisis was ending, the future of the United States was still in question.
To change the world's preoccupation with the subject of nuclear catastrophe 81 nations joined together, forming the IAEA. The management of 
Nuclear Fission, however, proved more of a problem than was collectively anticipated. The decades that followed the conception of IAEA was a challenge complicated by differing views of developed and undeveloped nations and the competing nature inherent in their coming together.
The IAEA was 50 years old when it found itself in the position of dealing with major nuclear concerns post 9/11. Many people had never heard of the IAEA before stories about North Korea and in the same period, about Iran. The IAEA again found themselves dealing with two separate issues regarding nuclear ambition, that of political and that of energy.
In the "new" world, the word "nuclear" and the word "terrorist" went hand in hand and fears were escalating. During this time, oil prices were on an upswing and world leaders were once again considering nuclear as a solution to dependence that was ever-increasing on foreign oil. Global warming was another concern and reducing harmful emissions into the atmosphere became a priority, as the threat of global warming was continually voiced.It is, at this point, up in the air which organizations or countries will lead the world into a new nuclear age, but IAEA's influence today has been powerful. It is yet to be seen what role the IAEA will have in the year of 2020.
