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Reader on nuclear Non-Proliferation (1978)

Author	US Senate
Date	December 1978
Classification	6.03.0.00/30 (PROLIFERATION - GENERAL)
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PREFACE

Revived concern during the last three years over the prospectof the further spread,
or proliferation, of nuclear weapons because of expanding use of nuclear power has
caused many authors to express their views on the subject. The following sampling
of 41 articles illustrates the range of recent thinking by leading academicians,
scientists and engineers, national and international officials and legislators. These
articles were selected from a search of the literature, particularly from publications
such as Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Atom, Foreign Affairs, International Security,
and Foreign Policy.
These articles are grouped in two categories: those that emphasize technical solutions
and those that focus on institutional ways of breaking or weakening the link between
nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Technical solutions typically include improved
safeguards technology and systems, improved security systems and development of
proliferation resistant fuel cycles. Institutional approaches include new or more
effective governmental
controls,and the use of international or multinational organization and cooperation.
The sample includes, 18 articles primarily concerned with technical measures and
23 that focus on institutional.
To provide some historical background the collection begins with two landmarks,
the Baruch plan of 1946 and President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech
of 1953.

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