United Atoms in a Divided World: The Early History of the IAEA

United Atoms in a Divided World: The Early History of the IAEA

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Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Wien
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Dachfoyer des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs
Ort
Wien
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
16.09.2012 - 18.09.2012
Von
Elisabeth Röhrlich

In September 2012, the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna will host an international conference on the history of the IAEA during the cold war years. The conference will cover a wide range of issues, including the creation of the Agency, its role in the nuclear non-proliferation regime, and the Agency's technical programs. Beyond that, the conference seeks to discuss the cultural, societal, and economic context of the IAEA's early history.

Programm

Sunday, 16 September 2012, 19:30
Film Presentation: The Beginnings of the IAEA in Vienna

Introduced by Leopold Kammerhofer and Marta Riess, IAEA Archives

Metro Kino, Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna

Monday, 17 September 2012

9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome

10:00-12:30: The Early Years of International Nuclear Cooperation
David Holloway (Stanford): The Soviet Union and the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy: The Beginnings of International Control

Stephen Twigge (Kew): The Third Nuclear Power: The UK and the Creation of the IAEA

Elisabeth Röhrlich (Vienna): From New York to Vienna: The IAEA Headquarters in Austria

John Krige (Atlanta): Euratom and the IAEA: The Problem of Self-Inspection

Chair: Christian Ostermann (Washington)

14:30-17:00: The IAEA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Xin Zhan (Changchun): China and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, 1964-1989

A. Vinod Kumar (New Delhi): The Indian Nuclear Program

Jo-Ansie van Wyk (Pretoria): The South African Nuclear Program and the IAEA

Robert Anderson (Vancouver): The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Debates

Chair: Leopoldo Nuti (Rome)

17:30-19:30: Podium Discussion (in cooperation with DER STANDARD)
With Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut, Vienna), Joseph F. Pilat (Los Alamos National Laboratories), and Gudrun Harrer (DER STANDARD, Vienna)

Chair: Oliver Rathkolb (Vienna)

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

9:00-11:00: Grass-Roots Movements, Environmentalism, and the IAEA
Holger Nehring (Sheffield): The Politics of Security: Protests against Nuclear Weapons and International Relations in the 1950s and early 1960s

Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus): The Question of Nuclear Safety and the Rise of Environmentalism in Western Europe: Transnational Perspectives

Karena Kalmbach (Florence): The IAEA and the Debate on the Health Effects of Chernobyl

Chair: Bernd Greiner (Hamburg)

12:00-14:00: Promoting the Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Technology
Gabriele Metzler (Berlin): Imagined Modernity: Nuclear Power and West German Society in the 1960s

Eugen Pfister (Vienna): "La domestication de l’atome c’est le steak grillé avec l’energie nucléaire": Nuclear Optimism in European Newsreels

J. Samuel Walker (Washington): Three Mile Island: The First Great Nuclear Power Crisis

Chair: Carola Sachse (Vienna)

14:00-15:00: Concluding Remarks
Oliver Rathkolb and Elisabeth Röhrlich

Kontakt

Elisabeth Röhrlich

Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Spitalgasse 2-4
1090 Wien
T +43-1-4277-41233

elisabeth.roehrlich@univie.ac.at

http://iaea-history.univie.ac.at
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