Nye: at the nuclear crossroads
Joseph S. Nye, former architect of the Carter Administration's nonproliferation policy tells in an interview how hard it is to halt the spread of nuclear weapons in the midst of an energy crisis. The Administration's strategy is based on a belief that the world still has time to forge an international anti-proliferation consensus and to find safer alternative nuclear technologies that could be managed on a global basis. Mr. Nye says there are probably two or three times as many countries that could have gone nuclear as have managed to do so, adding that this means we have to pay attention to both intentions that countries have, as well as their capabilities, and that there is no single, technical fix. He further commented on the following: security elements of the proliferation problem; misunderstanding of the policy by other nations; why the U.S. asks Europeans and the Japanese to delay commercialization of the breeder reactor; why the U.S. asks developing countries to trust us for uranium supplies, oil-import financing, and alternative energy sources in exchange for our lack of trust in their intentions; why the spread of nuclear knowledge and know-how would reduce proliferation of nuclear weapons; focus of the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation on developing proliferation-resistant technologies; dealing with the security aspects of proliferation; probability of South Africa exploding a nuclear device; and the impact that the anti-nuclear movement in the U.S. has had on the Carter Administration's anti-proliferation goals. (MCW)
- OSTI ID:
- 6437103
- Journal Information:
- Inter Depend.; (United States), Journal Name: Inter Depend.; (United States) Vol. 5:7; ISSN INDED
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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