Open Skies For Peace
Contributing to the development of peace worldwide
by the creation of an Open Skies regime for aerial observation.
U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Dave Nolan
From left to right: Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, French Premier Edgar Faure, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden at the 1955 Geneva Conference. At this conference Eisenhower put forth the “Open Skies” plan. (National Archives 59-G-VS-732-55)
U.S. Air Force Photo by Master Sgt. Dave Nolan
From left to right: Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, French Premier Edgar Faure, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden at the 1955 Geneva Conference. At this conference Eisenhower put forth the “Open Skies” plan. (National Archives 59-G-VS-732-55)
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Click here to listen to an excerpt from President Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" speech on April 16, 1953. The President discusses hopes for peace and disarmament almost two years before the "open skies" proposal. (Courtesy Eisenhower Library)
Click here to listen to an excerpt from President Eisenhower's speech in Rutland, Vermont on June 22, 1955. The month prior to the "open skies" proposal President Eisenhower visited several of the New England states. (Courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to listen to President Eisenhower discuss disarmament and inspection at a July 6, 1955 press conference. This press conference took place several weeks before the "open skies" proposal at the Geneva Conference. (Courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to listen to President Eisenhower discuss the importance of building trust with the Soviet Union at a July 6, 1955 press conference. (courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to listen to an excerpt from President Eisenhower's address to the nation prior to the Geneva Conference. (courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to listen to excerpts from President Eisenhower's address to the nation on July 25, 1955 discussing the Geneva Conference, disarmament and the "Open Skies" proposal. (courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to listen to President Eisenhower discuss disarmament at a press conference on May 22, 1957. (Courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to listen to President Eisenhower announce the first nuclear weapons free zone treaty during the State of the Union Address in 1960. This treaty included aerial inspection provisions along the lines of the "Open Skies" proposal. (Courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here for information about the United Nations publication titled "Open Skies: A Cooperative Approach to Military Transparency and Confidence Building." Click here to read a memorandum of a meeting of President Eisenhower and his advisors discussing "Open Skies" at the Geneva Conference. (Courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to visit the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's web page on the Open Skies Treaty. This page contains information about a seminar on the Open Skies Treaty held in December 2004. Click here to read a 1956 memorandum prepared by one of President Eisenhower's assistants, Andrew Goodpaster, on the topic of confidence building measures and disarmament. (courtesy Eisenhower Library) Click here to read excerpts from an "Open Skies for Peace" pamphlet published during the Eisenhower administration. (courtesy of The National Archives of the UK (PRO): ref. FO371/123712) Click here to read excerpts from a memorandum of a conversation at the President's luncheon for the Russian delegation at the Geneva Conference on July 20, 1955. (courtesy Eisenhower Library)
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