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Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism and Scientific Intelligence
Auteur | J.Krige |
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Datum | 2006 |
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.