Article ID: CBB311889554

Aligning missions: nuclear technical assistance, the IAEA, and national ambitions in Pakistan (2020)

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Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 36
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 437-451


Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Development Interventions: Science, Technology, and Technical Assistance
Language: English

Drawn from the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the British National Archives, and other sources, the present essay analyzes nuclear technical assistance in central Asia, focusing largely on Pakistan. It discusses collaborations with American and British institutions in the 1960s and later efforts to work under the auspices of the IAEA. The essay suggests that the IAEA’s mission in the 1960s and early 1970s, namely its leaders’ desire to demonstrate the relevance of the IAEA in economic development, aligned with Pakistan’s stated goals of constructing a robust reactor program. Rather than see technical assistance solely as a donor/recipient binary relationship, the essay encourages us to consider the mutuality of interests between a major international organization and a budding nuclear program. Archival documents suggest that the IAEA provided the endorsement for a major nuclear program for electricity production that Pakistan was unable to find with other partners.

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Article Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz (2020) Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance. History and Technology (pp. 293-309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mateos, Gisela
Suárez-Díaz, Edna
Rentetzi, Maria
Elisabeth Roehrlich
Munns, David P. D.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Science and politics
International cooperation
International relations
Cold War
Technical assistance
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Michigan (U.S.)
South Africa
Mexico
India
Ghana
Institutions
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
United Nations
University of Michigan
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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