Euratom and the IAEA
The problem of self-inspection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12696154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-352 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cold War History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682745.2014.999046 |
| OpenAlex | W2018297449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The IAEA was saddled with one burden at its inception, a burden that dogged it for many years afterwards. It was that Euratom, which had formally come into being in 1958, was authorised to implement its own safeguards, i.e. it was accorded the right of ‘self-inspection’. The first US director of the IAEA, Sterling Cole, fought a bitter battle to have this overturned, insisting that it undermined the core mission of the Agency and that it set an impossible precedent, and would trigger demands for a ‘Latinatom’ etc. This paper describes the circumstances that led the State Department to grant Euratom this privilege (a policy choice that is indicative of the deep investment that both J.F. Dulles and Eisenhower made in supranationality) and discusses the steps that Cole took to overturn it, to no avail
Agency (philosophy · Battle · Political science · Privilege (computing · Safeguard · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law · Nuclear and radioactivity studies · Nuclear Issues and Defense
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |