Nuclear Power for a Dictatorship

State and Business involvement in the Spanish Atomic Program, 1950–85

Bibliographic Data

ID10074045
AuthorsJoseba De la Torre (New York University, USA and Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain), Joseba de la Torre Campo (0000-0002-5235-7429, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)), Mar Rubio-Varas (0000-0002-8100-2651, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), corresponding author), Maria del Mar Rubio-Varas (Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA))
Year2015
Volume51
Issue2
Pages385-411
Publication date2015-10-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009415599448
OpenAlexW2317224124
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited3

Spain was the first developing country to exploit a nuclear power plant commercially. By the early 1970s Spain had become the major nuclear client of the USA, the world’s largest reactor exporter. Despite its importance, historians are just beginning to revisit and establish the sequence of the events that make up Spain’s nuclear history. This article analyses the role played by the state in enabling one of Western Europe’s poorest countries to join the exclusive nuclear power club. In a departure from the technological approach used in previous literature, the history of Spain’s progress in the nuclear power field is retraced against the background of its political and economic evolution

Club · Computer security · Democracy · Dictatorship · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Exploit · Great power · Nuclear physics · Nuclear power · Nuclear power plant · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Geology · History · Law · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

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