Commercial Alpha Waste Program. Quarterly progress report, January--March, 1975

Cooley, C.R.

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“…In the paranoiac atmosphere then prevailing, this specific injunction against force was taken as a provocation (19).…”

Section: The Oil Weaponmentioning

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Oil market power and United States national security

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2006

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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It is widely believed that an oil weapon could impose scarcity upon the United States. Impending resource exhaustion is thought to exacerbate this threat. However, threat seems implausible when we consider strategic deficits of prospective weapon users and the improbability of impending resource exhaustion. Here, we explore a hypothesis relating oil to national security under a different assumption, abundance. We suggest that an oil cartel exerts market power to keep abundance at bay, commanding monopoly rents [or wealth transfers (wt)] that underwrite security threats. We then compare security threats attributed to the oil weapon to those that may arise from market power. We first reexamine whether oil is abundant or scarce by reviewing current development data, then we estimate a competitive price for oil. From this, we derive wt 2004 collections by Persian Gulf states Ϸ $132-178 ؋ 10 9 . We find that wt and the behavior of states collecting it interact to actuate security threats. Threats underwritten by wt are (i) the potential for emergence of a Persian Gulf superpower and (ii) terrorism. It is therefore oil market power, not oil per se, that actuates threats. We also describe a paradox in the relation of market power to the United States' defense doctrine of force projection to preempt a Gulf superpower. Because the superpower threat derives from wt, force alone cannot preempt it. A further paradox is that because foreign policy is premised on oil weapon fear, market power is appeased. Threats thereby grow unimpeded.abundance ͉ oil weapon ͉ scarcity

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“…In the paranoiac atmosphere then prevailing, this specific injunction against force was taken as a provocation (19).…”

Section: The Oil Weaponmentioning

confidence: 99%

Oil market power and United States national security

Stern

2006

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…No data are available, nor is there an easy way to estimate, the plutonium content of the concrete drums. However, an estimate of the balance of the trench content can be made from available data on 300 Area laboratory waste generated in 1968 and also assay data from the 1970s (Cooley 1975). Hall (1969) listed the burial volumes and plutonium contents of waste from the various Hanford Site sectors.…”

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Characterization of 618-11 solid waste burial ground, disposed waste, and description of the waste generating facilities

Hladek¹

1997

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Characterization of the 618-11 Sol id Waste Burial Ground, Disposed Wastes, and Description of the Waste Generating Facilities Document Title: This document, reviewed in accordance with DOE Order 1 4 3 0. 1 D, "Scientific and Technical Information Management," and DOE G 1430.1D-I, "Guide to the Management of Scientific and Technical Information," does not contain classified or sensitive unclassified information and is: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE V. L. Birkland 'Document Control /Information C1 earance f l y. 25&4dL/ ' Lockheed Martin Services, Inc. ewewed for Applied Ischnology. Business Sensn~e, Clasalf.ed, Copynahted. txport Controlled. Patent. Veersanallmvate, Plopnetafl.

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Commercial Alpha Waste Program. Quarterly progress report, January--March, 1975

Cited by 2 publications

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Oil market power and United States national security

Oil market power and United States national security

Characterization of 618-11 solid waste burial ground, disposed waste, and description of the waste generating facilities

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