Nuclear Power and Non-Proliferation: The Remaking of U.S. Policy

Brenner, Michael J.

ISBN 10: 0521235170 / ISBN 13: 9780521235174

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1981

About this Item

Hardcover; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number affixed to dust jacket spine; otherwise in good condition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows fading and shelf wear and is protected by a Mylar cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nuclear Power and Non-Proliferation: The Remaking of U.S. Policy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521235170
• ISBN 13: 9780521235174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: UsedGood
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In this volume, Professor Brenner recounts how the United States dealt with the problem of nuclear proliferation in the period from 1974 to 1981 when this book was first published. The year 1974 is critical because of three highly coincidental events: India's explosion of a bomb; an upsurge in the demand for nuclear energy triggered by the oil crisis; and the commercialisation of fuel-producing technologies that could be used for weapons purposes. Nuclear Power and Non-Proliferation is at once a narrative account of how nuclear policy was made at the highest levels of the American government and a critical assessment of those policies. Professor Brenner places the chronicle of how policy is shaped within the context of interagency and legislative politics, as well as within the larger context of international conflicts concerning access to and control of nuclear power. The author locates the proliferation problem historically, emphasising the dual personality of atomic power and noting the tendency of military and civilian programmes to diverge steadily until the events of 1974 forced an attempt to bring them into single focus.

Book Description

Professor Brenner recounts how the United States dealt with the problem of nuclear proliferation and locates the proliferation problem historically, emphasising the dual personality of atomic power and noting the tendency of military and civilian programmes to diverge steadily until the events of 1974 forced an attempt to bring them into single focus.