Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

EI plan nuclear brasileño y la bomba atómica

2011; Universidad de Chile. Instituto de Estudios Internacionales; Volume: 11; Issue: 41 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5354/0719-3769.1978.16486

0719-3769

Jorge A. Sábato,

Nuclear Issues and Defense

The United States has voiced its opposition to the Brazilian nuclear plan. This would be based on the need to stop nuclear proliferation, preventing Brazil from being in a position to manufacture atomic bombs. In this paper, we argue that the Brazilian nuclear plan has nothing sinister, and on the contrary it responds to the strictest technical-economic rationality, and that the North American opposition is not due to the fear of proliferation but to causes of another nature, such as its interest in definitively establishing the nuclear cartel organized in the so-called London Club with the objective of exercising the most severe control over nuclear technology in the entire planet, regulating the production and trade of nuclear goods and services not only for hypothetical military purposes but primarily for commercial applications.