Completing perspectives on United States domestic and foreign nuclear power policies and nuclear technology relationships with Japan 1954-1974

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This thesis explores the politics of international nuclear technology transfer by focussing upon civil nuclear cooperation between the United States and Japan in the period 1954 to 1974. It examines in some historical detail the domestic development of the US nuclear power industry and its transnational expansion under the Atoms for Peace programme. Moreover the relationship between US domestic and foreign atomic policy in this period is given considerable emphasis. How and why the United States promoted and encouraged both the establishment, as well as the later institutionalisation, of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime is a major point for discussion. In exploring the nature of the civil nuclear relationship between the United States and Japan the study concentrates upon how the latter's reliance upon American nuclear technology and capital, for the development of its nuclear programme, imposed significant constraints upon its political autonomy. The study concludes by assessing the value of three competing theoretical perspectives - realism, liberal-pluralism and neo-marxism - in accounting for the impact of technology upon world politics. These three perspectives are discussed in the initial theoretical chapter and evaluated more rigorously in the concluding chapter.

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