Averting a Latin American Nuclear Arms Race New Prospects and Challenges for Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Cooperation

Viewed by experts as being on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons, Argentina and Brazil have recently taken stepts to assure each other their nuclear programs are entirely peaceful. This book reports on a 1989 conference that anticipated these events and explored the approaches being taken today. At the conference, international experts engage in a lively discussion of far-reaching confidence-building measures, including an inspection system based on new superpower arms-control agreements, to ensure nuclear energy programs in the region do not camouflage a nuclear arms race.;Why are effective nuclear safeguards in each nation's interest? What is an acceptable inspection system? Are nuclear submarines a surrogate for nuclear weapons? US and Latin American experts bring sharply differing perspectives to a debate of these issues. This book presents a debate in which international prescriptions for avoiding a nuclear arms race are also seen as economic imperialism intended to keep Third World nations from access to high technology.