enriched uranium and produced our enriched uranium at defusion plants in places like paducah, kentucky, portage, ohio, and oak ridge, tennessee. we were working so hard to build nuclear bombs as fast as we could in 1964 that those plants where we made highly enriched uranium, those plants were consuming 6% of our nation's total electrical output in order to make uranium. wow. but, again, we already had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled. how many were we ever planning on using? 50 years ago this week, 50 years ago tomorrow, the new president, the elected vice president who had been elevated to the highest office in the land by the assassination of president john f. kennedy just seven weeks earlier, lyndon b. johnson, 50 years ago this week, stood in front of a joint session of congress to deliver his state of the union message and he made huge news in that state of the union. he made huge news when he said he wanted to cut back on some of our massive, expensive uranium production. >> telling congress he will put the output of uranium by 25%. this is the first cutback since inventio

enriched uranium and produced our enriched uranium at defusion plants in places like paducah, kentucky, portageohio, and oak ridge, tennessee.

enriched uranium and produced our enriched uranium at defusion plants in places like paducah, kentucky, portagee were working so hard to build nuclear bombs as fast as we could in 1964 that those plants