Gathering Rare Ores : : The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943-1954 / / Jonathan E. Helmreich.
This is a comprehensive study of one of the most startling examples of dollar diplomacy--the effort of the United States and the United Kingdom to monopolize the free world's supply of uranium and thorium during and immediately following World War II.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton L...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Discovering the Need
- 2. The Cornerstone: Agreement with Belgium
- 3. Efforts at Preemption: Brazil, The Netherlands, and Sweden
- 4. Price, Politics, and Pride: Further Negotiations with Belgium
- 5. Reluctant Anglo-American Collaboration
- 6. The Difficulties of Sharing
- 7. Much Effort, Limited Gain: Continuing Global Negotiations
- 8. Raising the Compensation: The Belgian Export Tax
- 9. Atoms for Peace, Atoms for War
- 10. Preemption and Monopoly in Retrospect
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index