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Nuclear exports & world politics - policy and regime (1983)

AuthorR.Boardman, J.Keeley
Date1983
Classification 6.01.0.20/46 (IMPORTANCE WORLDWIDE)
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Preface

Canada and the United States were among the countries which attempted to take 
initiatives to check nuclear weapons proliferation during the 1970s. While the 
immediate context of such moves was debate within and between the nuclear 
exporting nations on the most appropriate response to the continuing demands of 
less developed countries for nuclear power following the Indian test of l974, the 
issues came to encompass the full range of questions involved in nuclear policy. 
This kind of broader reassessment was already beginning to get under way in 
several advanced industrial states in the mid-1970s, though non-proliferation 
concerns were central to shifts in public attitudes towards nuclear power generally 
in only a few. By the end of the decade, however, no clear way forward seemed to 
have emerged, even though some of the tensions much in evidence only a few 
years earlier seemed to have been eased. Disaffection on the part of many 
developing nations towards existing non-proliferation regimes appeared widespread 
and irremovable; and dissension among the western group of nuclear exporting and 
consuming countries, while cooled somewhat by the International Nuclear Fuel 
Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) inspired by the Carter Administration's anxiety-laden view 
of world nuclear developments in 1977, remained beneath the surface of inter-allied 
relations.
The focus in the main body of this book is on policies and policymaking processes 
in a selected number of western nuclear exporting countries. It formed no part of 
our aims in planning the volume to add to the stock of policy and international 
regime recommendations and proposals that now forms a quite substantial part of 
the literature on non-proliferation. An assumption underlying the study was that 
the orientations of the leading nuclear supplying states merit a more central position 
in the analysis of international nuclear politics and non-proliferation, and that a 
broader comparative approach was a useful and relatively under-exploited tool 
for this task.

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