Article ID: CBB489453603

Atomic Ambassadors: The IAEA’s First Preliminary Assistance Mission (1958) (2021)

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Mateos, Gisela (Author)
Suárez-Díaz, Edna (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Pages: 90-105


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Special Issue: Nuclear Diplomacies
Language: English

In 1958, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) saw the need to organize international surveys on nuclear development. Latin America was chosen as the region to host the first Preliminary Assistance Mission, planned to build the engagement of countries with nuclear technologies and knowledge. The mission’s goals included the assistance to request future assistance. Teams sent abroad were composed of administrative staff and scientific experts who acted as atomic ambassadors. Nuclear diplomacy infused collaboration and cooperation in international relations by the use of paper technologies and by implementing the missions as actual travels and face-to-face contacts. The IAEA was able to ground policies and projects devised by the interconnected interests of Vienna and each Latin American country, while maintaining the deep asymmetries of the Cold War era. This paper aims to contribute to the visibility of actors and mechanisms designed to create the need for nuclear technical assistance.

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Article Kenji Ito; Maria Rentetzi (2021) The co-production of nuclear science and diplomacy: Towards a transnational understanding of nuclear things. History and Technology (pp. 4-20). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rentetzi, Maria
Kenji Ito
Mateos, Gisela
Suárez-Díaz, Edna
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Sánchez Sánchez, Esther M.
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Foreign relations; diplomacy
International cooperation
Technical assistance
Cold War
Technology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Spain
South Africa
France
Pakistan
Japan
Institutions
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
CENTO Nuclear Institute
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
League of Nations
UNESCO
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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