Peaceful Atoms in Mexico
Peaceful Atoms in Mexico
Mateos and Suárez-Díaz use a transnational framework to study the history of Mexican nuclearity during the Cold War. As they show, the development of national nuclear capabilities required the international circulation of physicists, nuclear materials, standards, and practices. Yet the authors further argue that the history of the Mexican nuclear program cannot be understood outside the context of Mexican political history in the twentieth century, as Mexico’s dual goals of political independence and national scientific capability resulted in a nuclear program that was dedicated exclusively to peaceful applications—such as energy—and eschewed the building of bombs.
Keywords: Cold war, nuclear, physics, circulation, scientific development, transnational history, Mexico
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