ABSTRACT
United States (US) reponse was the famous Atoms for Peace program, in which President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed that the US become the leader in a worldwide effort to make available to every nation the fruits of peaceful nuclear power, in return for agreements by others to foreswear nuclear weapons. To the extent that the US retained its nuclear leadership, then, it could shape the direction of technological development and influence how that technology would be used. The success of the approach in the 1950s and 1960s depended upon the technological leadership of the US If the US is to play a strong role in shaping international nuclear power deployment in the future, to help make it consistent with our nonproliferation objectives, the US must be again a technological leader. To become a technological leader once again requires the willingness to invest in technological advances not economic.
