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Author Beckman, Robert L

Title Nuclear Non-Proliferation : Congress and the Control of Peaceful Nuclear Activities
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (459 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 PRIMUS INTER PARES; 1. THE ERA OF SECRECY: 1945-1954; U.S.-British Cooperation; Domestic Preparation for International Control; The Baruch Plan; The Atomic Energy Act of 1946; Government-Industrial Cooperation for Peaceful Uses; The Soviet Union and the Super; Reviewing Legislation: Partial Cooperation; 2. FAILURE OF SUPRANATIONALISM AND THE RACE TO COOPERATIVE COMPETITION: 1954-1970; Atoms For Peace; The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA/54); Nuclear Promotion
Building a Nuclear Non-Proliferation RegimeThe Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); PART 2 NUCLEAR DAWN: THROWING LIGHT ON HAZARDS; 3. SAFEGUARDS: ORIGINS OF UNEASINESS; Safeguards; Constraining the Controllers; The Emperor Is Supreme; Yes, But He Has No Clothes; 4. ASSESSING THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN: THE NUCLEAR PARADOX; The Nuclear Priesthood; The Environmentalists' Challenge; The National Environmental Policy Act; Fundamental Disagreements; PART 3 LEGISLATIVE MANEUVERING; 5. CONGRESSIONAL REEDUCATION ON PROLIFERATION; The Shocks of 1974 and the Confluence of World Events
The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974The Zangger List and the London Suppliers' Club; 6. LEGISLATIVE ATTEMPTS AT EXPORT REFORM; Success: The Symington Amendment; Unenacted Legislation of the Ninety-Fourth Congress; Unfinished Business: The Death of the JCAE; PART 4 CONGRESSIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON PRESIDENTIAL FLEXIBILITY; 7. BATTLE LINES: TO BAN OR TO MANAGE?; Presidential Politics and the Carter Promise; The Fri Report; Implications of the Ford Statement; Preliminary Skirmishes; Carter Non-proliferation Policies; 8. CLASH OF ARMS: REFORMERS VERSUS REALISTS; Industry Complaints; Foreign Views
Executive Branch PositionsCongress Splits: Should It End U.S. Complicity or Try to Manage the Inevitable?; The Shock of Battle and a Flanking Maneuver; PART 5 REEXAMINATION, REALISM, AND REASSERTION; 9. RUBBER GUILLOTINES BEGIN TO FALL; International Responses to NNPA; The Reagan Reexamination; Congressional Reassertion; 10. CONCLUSIONS: A PYRRHIC VICTORY?; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Selected Bibliography; Index
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