Nuclear America: Military and Civilian Nuclear Power in the United States, 1940-1980.

1986 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Roger M. Anders ◽  
Gerard H. Clarfield ◽  
William M. Wiecek ◽  
Robert K. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The United States

The Era of Distrust

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-248
Author(s):  
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Developing World ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Nuclear Technology ◽  
Government Interests

By the mid-1980s, the state-sponsored positive framing of the peaceful atom served a range of government interests. It enabled the United States and European states to use nuclear power as leverage against developing countries in a time when petroleum seemed to swing the pendulum of global resource dominance toward several so-called backward countries. It was useful to countries trying to prop up the legitimacy of their nuclear weapons programs, while secretly working on bombs, and it provided environmental arguments to those whose priority was actually energy security. The peaceful atom’s promise of plenty helped to maintain a veneer of credibility for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at a time when the IAEA seemed to have become the treaty’s policing instrument. The more the United States relied on the IAEA, the more it recommitted to making promises of peaceful nuclear technology, especially to the developing world.

Canada's Project Lazarus: Resurrecting US Nuclear Power?

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Carl E. Bagge
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North American ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Real Option ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
The North ◽  
Electricity Use ◽  
Coal Market ◽  
Coal Power

The North American coal market is healthy. It will grow in the United States because electricity use will grow; and coal is America's only real option. The Canadian coal industry will grow as well. The only competition for coal in the United States is the non-coal power of Canada. We will compete and establish a natural economic frontier along our border in the east.

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