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Throughout the period that plans for EURATOM were under discussion the Soviet Union made no secret that it was distrustful of the motives behind the setting up of this organisation. To quote Kelly on this point:
The Soviet Union from the very beginning never liked EURATOM. They saw it as a device whereby the West was going to allow the West Germans access to nuclear technology in order to build a bomb. This view coloured their relationship with EURATOM for many years.1
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Notes
S. M. Meyer, The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984) p. 5.
W. L. Kohl, French Nuclear Diplomacy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971) p. 19.
As Scheinman further comments, ‘The allusion to the obvious military implication of atomic energy … served to appeal to the General’s hope that France would not be permanently relegated to a second-rate status in the family of nations.’ Atomic Energy Policy in France under the Fourth Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965) pp. 5–7.
See B. Goldschmidt, ‘Proliferation and Non-Proliferation in Western Europe: A Historical Survey’, in H. Muller (ed.), A European Non-Proliferation Policy: Prospects and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987) p. 8.
See B. Goldschmidt’s chapter, ‘France’, in J. Goldblat (ed.), Non-Proliferation: The Why and the Wherefore (London and Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, for SIPRI, 1985) p. 59.
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Howlett, D.A. (1990). EURATOM, the Soviet Union and Military Nuclear Programmes. In: EURATOM and Nuclear Safeguards. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10382-9_4
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