Nuclear Non-proliferation Congress And The Control Of Peaceful Nuclear Activities

This book examines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 and other stringent non-proliferation laws that seek to tighten U.S. nuclear export criteria and strengthen the international non-proliferation regime. It juxtaposes efforts of nuclear managers with those of reformers who remain intent on strengthening safeguards to prevent horizontal proliferation. Dr. Beckman looks at the development of the Atoms for Peace program, the mindset that grew up along with it, and the shifts in congressional thought about the promise and problems of the peaceful nuclear fuel cycle.

Westview Special Studies -- Introduction -- Primus Inter Pares -- The Era of Secrecy: 1945–1954 -- Failure of Supranationalism and the Race to Cooperative Competition: 1954-1970 -- Nuclear Dawn: Throwing Light on Hazards -- Safeguards: Origins of Uneasiness -- Assessing the Faustian Bargain: The Nuclear Paradox -- Legislative Maneuvering -- Congressional Reeducation on Proliferation -- Legislative Attempts at Export Reform -- Congressional Constraints on Presidential Flexibility -- Battle Lines: To Ban or to Manage? -- Clash of Arms: Reformers Versus Realists -- Reexamination, Realism, and Reassertion -- Rubber Guillotines Begin to Fall -- Conclusions: A Pyrrhic Victory?