The safeguards system of the International Atomic Energy Agency : a study of the international politics of atomic control
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1968
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Butler, Richard
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This thesis is a study in international politics. Its
subject is the system for the control of atomic energy -
the safeguards system - established and administered by
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). I have undertaken a political study of this technical
system because the main purpose for which the system was
established is a political purpose. The system can be described in many ways A functional description shows it to be a set of technical and
administrative arrangements designed to ensure that the
atomic activities to which these arrangements apply are
carried out within definite technical limits. A
description in terms of its technical objective shows it
to be a set of regulations designed to ensure that these
same atomic activities do not "further any military
purpose". Such descriptions are useful and have been considered
wherever appropriate. However, the main concern of this
thesis is with the negotiations on the development of this
system for the international control of atomic energy.
These negotiations reflect both the policy attitudes and
diplomatic performances of the powers involved in them and the role it has been agreed the system should play in the
wider field of nuclear arms control.
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