Iran and the Nuclear Question - 9781138676121

Taylor & Francis

Iran and the Nuclear QuestionHistory and Evolutionary Trajectory\nAuthor(s): Mohammad Homayounvash\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138676121, 978-1138676121\nSynopsis\nSpanning over a period of more than five decades since its inception, Irans nuclear programme is the most protracted civilian nuclear program in the world and one of the most politicized projects in Irans history.\n\n'Iran and the Nuclear Question' offers a historiographical portrait of Irans early nuclear program under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Using declassified archival material, the book thematically chronicles the programs genesis, evolutionary trajectory, and devolution from the 1950s through to the 1970s. It also catalogues the Revolutionary Irans early socialization into the atom and the Islamic Republics gradual change of heart about nuclear energy that culminated in the incremental resuscitation of the Shahs nuclear enterprise in the 1.