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Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nuclear excavation Languages : en Pages : 23
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Progress in the AEC's Plowshare program to develop peaceful applications for nuclear explosives can be viewed as resulting from three separate but interrelated efforts: Research and development in the laboratory, field experiments, and studies and demonstrations of applications in conjunction with groups which would make use of nuclear explosives.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nuclear excavation Languages : en Pages : 23
Book Description
Progress in the AEC's Plowshare program to develop peaceful applications for nuclear explosives can be viewed as resulting from three separate but interrelated efforts: Research and development in the laboratory, field experiments, and studies and demonstrations of applications in conjunction with groups which would make use of nuclear explosives.
Author: United States Atomic Energy Commission Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nuclear excavation Languages : en Pages : 23
Book Description
Progress in the AEC's Plowshare program to develop peaceful applications for nuclear explosives can be viewed as resulting from three separate but interrelated efforts: Research and development in the laboratory, field experiments, and studies and demonstrations of applications in conjunction with groups which would make use of nuclear explosives.
Author: Scott Kaufman Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801465397 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders, champions of "peaceful nuclear explosions" maintained that they could create new elements and isotopes for general use, build storage facilities for water or fuel, mine ores, increase oil and natural gas production, generate heat for power production, and construct roads, harbors, and canals. By harnessing the power of the atom for nonmilitary purposes, Plowshare backers expected to protect American security, defend U.S. legitimacy and prestige, and ensure access to energy resources. Scott Kaufman’s extensive research in nearly two dozen archives in three nations shows how science, politics, and environmentalism converged to shape the lasting conflict over the use of nuclear technology. Indeed, despite technological and strategic promise, Plowshare’s early champions soon found themselves facing a vocal and powerful coalition of federal and state officials, scientists, industrialists, environmentalists, and average citizens. Skeptical politicians, domestic and international pressure to stop nuclear testing, and a lack of government funding severely restricted the program. By the mid-1970s, Plowshare was, in the words of one government official, "dead as a doornail." However, the thought of using the atom for peaceful purposes remains alive.
Author: Jayita Sarkar Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501764411 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries. The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation. Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
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Author: United States Atomic Energy Commission
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Author: Scott Kaufman
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Author: Carl R. Gerber
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Author: Jayita Sarkar
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents