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Book Atoms for Peace Manual

Download or read book Atoms for Peace Manual written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atoms for Peace Manual

Download or read book Atoms for Peace Manual written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Atoms for Peace Document Collection

Download or read book Guide to the Atoms for Peace Document Collection written by U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Technical Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atoms for Peace and War  1953 1961

Download or read book Atoms for Peace and War 1953 1961 written by Richard G. Hewlett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Book The American Atom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip L. Cantelon
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780812213546
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book The American Atom written by Philip L. Cantelon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this edition (first in 1984), the editors have updated the collection of primary documents which tell the story of atomic energy in the US from the discovery of fission through the development of nuclear weapons, international proliferation, and attempts at control. The book also includes a new chapter, reflects on Chernoyl, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Atoms For Peace

Download or read book Atoms For Peace written by Joseph F. Pilat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposal to the United Nations provided the basis for development of nuclear cooperation, trade, and nonproliferation policy in the noncommunist world. Ever since its inception, however, the policy has sparked widespread debate, and it remains controversial today. Exploring the past, present, and future significance of Atoms for Peace, the contributors to this volume analyze the future role of the United States in international affairs, the nature of controls over nuclear cooperation and trade, the scope and limitations of international cooperation in nuclear energy and nonproliferation matters, and the prospects for multinational and international institutional measures to achieve these ends.

Book The International Atomic Energy Agency and World Nuclear Order

Download or read book The International Atomic Energy Agency and World Nuclear Order written by Lawrence Scheinman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Atomic Energy Agency has had a leading responsibility in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and misuse of materials intended for nuclear energy across the world. Originally published in 1987, in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 which proved the utmost importance of the agency, Scheinman explores the function of the IAEA and the challenges it faced. This report also lists ways that the agency could be strengthened touching on topics such as leadership roles, support for safeguarding functions and prevention from the agency being overwhelmed by international and national political issues. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies.

Book Belief based Energy Technology Development in the United States

Download or read book Belief based Energy Technology Development in the United States written by Chi-Jen Yang and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of two energy policies that illustrates how and why technical fixes in energy policy failed in the United States. In the post-WWII era, the U.S. government forcefully and consistently endorsed the development of civilian nuclear power. It adopted policies to establish the competitiveness of civilian nuclear power far beyond what would have occurred under free-market conditions. Even though synthetic fuel was characterized by a similar level of economic potential and technical feasibility, the policy approach toward synthetic fuel was sporadic and indeterminate. The contrast between the unfaltering faith in nuclear power and the indeterminate attitude toward synthetic fuel raises many important questions. The answers to these questions reveal provocative yet compelling insights into the policy-making process. The author argues that these diverging paths of development can be explained by exploring the dominant government ideology of the time or "ideology of the state" as the sociology literature describes it. The forceful support for nuclear power was a result of a government preoccupied with fighting the Cold War. The U.S. national security planners intentionally idealized and deified nuclear power to serve its Cold War psychological strategy. These psychological maneuverings attached important symbolic meaning to nuclear power. This symbolism, in turn, explains the society-wide enthusiasm. The fabricated myth of the Atomic Age became a self-fulfilling prophecy and ushered in a bandwagon market. On the other hand, a confused, indeterminate, and relatively powerless welfare state stood behind synthetic fuel. The different ideologies of the state explain the government's different attitudes toward nuclear and synfuel endeavors. The overarching discovery is a mode of "belief-based decision-making" in long-term energy planning. This discovery goes against the prevalent assumption of rational choice in social sciences. The author argues that rational-choice assumption is inapplicable because of the extreme long-term nature of energy planning. It is not usually possible to predict the sociopolitical and economic conditions in the distant future. Rational decisions require supporting information, which often includes impossible long-term foresights. One cannot rationally choose between one unknown and another unknown. Pivotal decisions in long-term energy planning must inevitably be belief based, and beliefs are subject to political manipulation and distortions by social mechanisms. Understanding these peculiar but pervasive characteristics of energy business bears important lessons for today's decision making about energy technologies, and the stakes, if anything, are even higher than before. Energy policy communities; historians of the Cold War, American history, and technology; and sociologists would find this book an invaluable resource.

Book Stalin and the Bomb

Download or read book Stalin and the Bomb written by David Holloway and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stalin and the Bomb' represents a comprehensive history of Soviet nuclear policy, from developments in physics in the 1920s to the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the 1950s. The author looks at how the bombs were built, and the role that espionage played.

Book Reports and Documents

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1538 pages

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regulation of Armaments  Atomic Energy

Download or read book Regulation of Armaments Atomic Energy written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Readings on Atomic Energy

Download or read book Selected Readings on Atomic Energy written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Atomic Audit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen I. Schwartz
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2011-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780815722946
  • Pages : 750 pages

Download or read book Atomic Audit written by Stephen I. Schwartz and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war. Some observers believe the absence of a third world war confirms that these weapons were a prudent and cost-effective response to the uncertainty and fear surrounding the Soviet Union's military and political ambitions during the cold war. As early as 1950, nuclear weapons were considered relatively inexpensive— providing "a bigger bang for a buck"—and were thoroughly integrated into U.S. forces on that basis. Yet this assumption was never validated. Indeed, for more than fifty years scant attention has been paid to the enormous costs of this effort—more than $5 trillion thus far—and its short and long-term consequences for the nation. Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, assembling for the first time anywhere the actual and estimated expenditures for the program since its creation in 1940. The authors provide a unique perspective on U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear weapons, tracking their development from the Manhattan Project of World War II to the present day and assessing each aspect of the program, including research, development, testing, and production; deployment; command, control, communications, and intelligence; and defensive measures. They also examine the costs of dismantling nuclear weapons, the management and disposal of large quantities of toxic and radioactive wastes left over from their production, compensation for persons harmed by nuclear weapons activities, nuclear secrecy, and the economic implications of nuclear deterrence. Utilizing archival and newly declassified government documents and data, this richly documented book demonstrates how a variety of factors—the open-ended nature of nuclear deterrence, faulty assumptions about the cost-effectiveness of nuclear weapons, regular misrepresentati

Book American Foreign Policy     Basic Documents

Download or read book American Foreign Policy Basic Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Foreign Policy  1950 1955

Download or read book American Foreign Policy 1950 1955 written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: