Early in the Cold War, even as the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a relentless nuclear arms race, they treated nuclear technology as a tool of soft power and diplomacy – something to share and export, a seal on alliances and a token of friendship.Thus Dwight Eisenhower’s America launched the Atoms for Peace program, which helped build civilian nuclear programs around the world, in the same year that it executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for giving the Soviets our atomic secrets. The Soviet Union likewise exported forms of nuclear power to Eastern Bloc nations and Mao Zedong’s China. In each case, the broad goal was to spread the tech while maintaining control over the weapons, taking very different approaches to the two forms of nuclear strength.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
China’s making Kimi K3 open source without any American-style fretting
Washington is managing the technology like the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Beijing treats the models that its companies produce as the equivalent of nuclear energy.
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