Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism, and Scientific Intelligence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161-181 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/507140 |
| OpenAlex | W2053654902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 85 |
| References cited | 11 |
The promotion of the benign atom as an instrument of American foreign policy and hegemonic ambitions was important to scientists and policy makers alike who sought to win “hearts and minds” in the early years of the cold war. The distribution of radioisotopes to friendly nations for research and medicinal purposes in the late 1940s was followed by Eisenhower’s far more spectacular Atoms for Peace initiative, announced at the United Nations in December 1953. This chapter describes the polyvalent significance of the diffusion first of radioisotopes, then of reactor technology, notably at the famous conference in Geneva in 1955. It places particular emphasis on the role of scientists and their appeal to scientific internationalism to promote national scientific leadership. It is stressed that openness and security, sharing knowledge or technology and implementing regimes of surveillance, were two sides of the same coin
Appeal · Democracy · Foreign policy · Hegemony · Openness to experience · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · International Science and Diplomacy · Law · Psychology · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
American Scientists, Americanist Archaeology
Geopolitical Cultures of Outer Space
On thick ice
Negotiating Risk
Atoms for Sale
Fast Breeder Reactors in Sweden
Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation
The Human Right to Science
Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
Proving Grounds
Radiation and Restoration; or, How Best to Make a Blight-Resistant Chestnut Tree
Geophysical Datascapes of the Cold War
WHO’s Right to Health
Isótopos das águas brasileiras para o desenvolvimento
Radioisótopos no Brasil
“Research Security” in Germany and the United States
A Shortcut to Autonomy or a Path to Dependency? Foreign Assistance and Brazil’s Search for Nuclear Autonomy
Negating Non-proliferation? The Potential Sino-South Challenge to Nuclear Market Regulation
Radiation Risk in Cold War Mexico
Atomic Technologies and Nuclear Safety Practices in Spain During the 1960s
Making the accident hypothetical
Across borders
Global Regulation
Data in Antarctic Science and Politics
The Unflinching Mr. Smith and the Nuclear Age
Nuclear science and technology in the Malaysian context
Atomic Routes and Cultures for a New Narrative on Franco’s Regime
Enacting the substrata
Public opinion on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons
Nuclear Energy in the Public Sphere
How Do Science and Technology Affect International Affairs
Radiation Songs and Transpacific Resonances of US Imperial Transits
A complicated way of boiling water
Mexican Scientists in the Making of Nutritional and Nuclear Diplomacy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Science as a Family Affair
In a Distorted Mirror
The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War
Dissenting Scientists in Early Cold War Britain
An Attitude of Caution
Nuclearization on the Iberian Peninsula
Imperialism, Technology and Tropicality in Arthur C. Clarke’s Geopolitics of Outer Space
Engineering world society? Scientists, internationalism, and the advent of the Space Age
Peaceful atoms in Japan
US Hegemony and the Origins of Japanese Nuclear Power
The dual-use security dilemma and the social construction of insecurity
Science as propaganda
La technoscience nucléaire soviétique
Soviet Nuclear Technoscience
Yugoslav Nuclear Diplomacy between the Soviet Union and the United States in the Early and Mid‐Cold War
Quantum Tunneling through the Iron Curtain
Measuring the Particular
The Origins of Euratom's Research on Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion
Scientific intelligence, nuclear assistance, and bargaining
Radium, biophysics, and radiobiology
Let there be light … and bread
Sur les dynamiques de constitution des systèmes d'expertise scientifique
Atomic structures
The troublesome life of peaceful atoms in Denmark
Mutant rice and agricultural modernization in Asia
Striking the empire back
Development interventions
How the United States learned to commodify the transnational atom
Atoms for peace and radiation for safety – how to build trust in irradiated foods in Cold War Europe and beyond
Security and the shaping of identity for nuclear specialists
Public technology
Atomic ambassadors
Making science at home
Creating the need in Mexico
El viaje del uranio español en los años sesenta
Niels Bohr's Diplomatic Mission during and after World War Two
Economic Rationality and International Humanitarianism
Bringing Small Devices, Giving Design Advice
Hiroshima in Egypt
Your Mysterious Instruments”
Fuel for commercial politics
Safeguarding the atom
Without Anger and Partiality”
In Pursuit of “Man-Made Evolution”
Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
What (really) makes a country nuclear? Insights from nonnuclear Southeast Asia
From Papers to Newspapers
The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene
Geophysical Datascapes of the Cold War
Let's Go to the Moon
Atomic archaeology
| Unique citing works | 85 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,27 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |