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Recent U.S. Efforts To Control Nuclear Proliferation, John D. Gleissner
Recent U.S. Efforts To Control Nuclear Proliferation, John D. Gleissner
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The explosion of a nuclear device by India on May 18, 1974, initiated a new wave of concern for the prospects of limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Subsequent developments such as the Nixon proposal to provide nuclear materials to Egypt and Israel and the announcement by West Germany of its intentions to sell Brazil a plutonium reprocessing facility increased fears in the United States that the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons would continue to grow at the expense of world peace and security. Apprehension is likely to continue since the development of an atomic bomb blueprint by a …