Temptation and Control:Secret Negotiations for Atomic Energy Cooperation Between the Chinese Nationalist Government and the US from 1947 to 1948
After World War Ⅱ,human society entered the era of atomic energy.The United States,holding a nuclear monopoly,implemented a nuclear energy control policy.In view of the huge power of the atomic bomb,other countries also began to research nuclear energy.From 1947 to 1948,the Nationalist Government of China and the United States secretly negotiated for nuclear energy cooperation.This matter had not attracted the attention of scholars for a long time.This paper restores the process of this secret negotiation by combing and comparing the relevant documents from"Academia Historica"and the relevant American diplomatic files.The secret negotiation,actually,was part of the Nationalist Government's strategy for studying the atomic bomb,and also witnessed the international atomic energy control policy of the US after World War Ⅱ.
China-US Atomic Energy CooperationAcademia SinicaSino-American Secret Diplomacy