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BOOK REVIEW: The Wisdom of Sharing the Peaceful Atom
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BOOK REVIEW: The Wisdom of Sharing the Peaceful Atom Atoms for Peace: A Future after Fifty Years? Edited by Joseph F. Pilat Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2007, 392 pp
When President Dwight Eisenhower made his historic Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in December 1953, that body had a total of 60 members. Now there are 192. By itself, this increase in independent countries, dramatic as it is, might be enough to justify a re-examination of the wisdom of sharing the peaceful atom. But other changes that have altered the assumptions underlying the proposal compel such a re-examination.
With the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an arms …
