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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor.(Book review)

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-DEC-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. 192 pp. $22.00.

In December of 1975, nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter and his colleagues at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency published a report, "Moving Life...

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...Toward in a Nuclear Armed Crowd," which assessed the connections between atomic weapons and civilian nuclear energy. (An abridged version later appeared in Minerva XV [Autumn-Winter 1977]: 387-538.) The report warned that "by 1985, according to their plans in 1975, nearly 40 countries [would] have enough chemically separable plutonium for a few bombs." They were not the first to worry about the spread of nuclear weapons; already, in 1963,...

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