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Roberta Wohlstetter’s The Buddha Smiles (1977) and the new U.S.-India civil nuclear deal

As the Executive Branch attempts to bend American and international law to permit a new agreement for U.S. civil nuclear cooperation with India, proponents and opponents of this controversial nuclear deal would do well to read The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded … Continue reading

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The Wohlstetters on the military potential of civil nuclear energy

During the early 1970s the US nuclear industry was keen to promote reprocessing, through which plutonium is separated from spent nuclear reactor fuel and then fabricated into new fuel — either plutonium fuel or mixed plutonium oxide/uranium oxide (MOX) fuel. … Continue reading

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