Soon after Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program was unveiled, the Soviet Union launched a similar initiative. Both nations were offering nuclear technological training, supplies, and information that could revolutionize a country’s energy supply in exchange for siding with either the West or the East. In that sense, the sharing of nuclear technology was a form of empire building. In addition to using this technology for energy, both the United States and the U.S.S.R. had additional programs exploring non-combat uses for nuclear explosions. Known as Project Plowshare in the U.S. and Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy in the Soviet Union, each involved detonating dozens of nuclear weapons to test their efficiency as a means of geological research and construction. In this poster, a Soviet scientist observes the trajectory of subatomic particles on film while vignettes of various possibilities for nuclear technology fill the background. Images like this would have been common throughout the U.S.S.R. and Comecon countries, implying the benevolence of the Soviet Union as it sought to improve the lives of all people.