2018
DOI: 10.25162/jgo-2018-0001
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Nuclear Technopolitics in the Soviet Union and Beyond – An Introduction

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“…For the two superpowers as well as many countries both in Europe and on the 'nuclear periphery' , the development and regulation of nuclear energy offered the possibility to secure economic progress, demonstrate technological prowess, and present themselves as guided by rational, scientific means (Hecht, 1998(Hecht, , 2006Jasanoff and Kim, 2009;Kaijser, 2021;Richers et al, 2018;Welsh, 2000). At the same time, developing or being in the possession of nuclear weapons became the ultimate signature of the geopolitical status of a nation (Hecht, 2006).…”
Section: The 'Atomic Age' -Nuclear Power and European Integration In ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For the two superpowers as well as many countries both in Europe and on the 'nuclear periphery' , the development and regulation of nuclear energy offered the possibility to secure economic progress, demonstrate technological prowess, and present themselves as guided by rational, scientific means (Hecht, 1998(Hecht, , 2006Jasanoff and Kim, 2009;Kaijser, 2021;Richers et al, 2018;Welsh, 2000). At the same time, developing or being in the possession of nuclear weapons became the ultimate signature of the geopolitical status of a nation (Hecht, 2006).…”
Section: The 'Atomic Age' -Nuclear Power and European Integration In ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It portrayed a "European government that was based on the advanced areas of scientific research and justified by the increasing economic demands of science." (Barry and Walters, 2003: 310) This entanglement of Big Science with early post-WW2 politics was different from the one in the U.S., the Soviet Union, the U.K. and France where publicly funded nuclear research was connected to both, nuclear energy and nuclear weapons development (Hecht, 1998;Holloway, 1994;Krige, 2016;Rhodes, 1988;Richers et al, 2018;Welsh, 2000). By drawing a dividing line between the military and the civil use of the atom, between the utopian and the dystopian elements of the 'Atomic Age' , European integration was envisioned as a result of cooperation in the nuclear energy sector only.…”
Section: The 'Atomic Age' -Nuclear Power and European Integration In ...mentioning
confidence: 99%