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Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism and Scientific Intelligence

AuteurJ.Krige
6-01-0-40-90.pdf
Datum2006
Classificatie 6.01.0.40/90 (GESCHIEDENIS ONTWIKKELING KERNENERGIE)
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Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism and
Scientific Intelligence
by John Krige

Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism and
Scientific Intelligence
by John Krige*


ABSTRACT
The promotion of the benign atom as an instrument of American foreign
policy was important to scientists and policymakers alike who sought to
win ‘hearts and minds’ in the early years of the Cold War. The
distribution of radioisotopes to friendly nations for research and medicinal
purposes in the late 1940s, was followed by Eisenhower’s far more
spectacular Atoms for Peace initiative announced at the United Nations in
December 1953. This paper exposes the polyvalent significance of the
diffusion first of radioisotopes and then of reactor technology, notably at
the famous conference in Geneva in 1955, with particular emphasis on the
role of scientists and their appeal to scientific internationalism to promote
national scientific leadership. It is stressed that openness and security,
sharing knowledge or technology and implementing regimes of
surveillance, were two sides of the same coin.