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The Politics of Nuclear Exports in West Germany

In: Nuclear Exports and World Politics

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  • Erwin Häckel

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The development of nuclear energy in Germany has a long and twisted history. It was not until ten years after the Second World War that a programme of nuclear research was initiated (or rather, re-installed) in the country where the fission of atomic nuclei had first been discovered in 1938. When the Federal Republic of Germany attained sovereignty in 1955, it was lagging far behind many countries in its capacity for the scientific and industrial utilization of nuclear energy. Two decades later West Germany’s nuclear programme ranked among the most ambitious and the West German nuclear industry among the most expansive in the world. Half a decade later again, the industry stood at the brink of collapse and the country’s nuclear programme had ground almost to a standstill.

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  • Erwin Häckel, 1983. "The Politics of Nuclear Exports in West Germany," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robert Boardman & James F. Keeley (ed.), Nuclear Exports and World Politics, chapter 4, pages 62-78, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05984-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05984-3_4
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