“O desarmamento total deve ser a meta a ser atingida” : o projeto de desnuclearização da América Latina e seu contexto histórico (1950-1964)

Abstract

This research studies, through the description of four documents from the National Nuclear Energy Commission and the bibliographic survey, how the Cold War and the Brazilian political situation interfered in national nuclear policy and in the denuclearization project in Latin America, thus, aiming to generally understand the conflict between the denuclearization proposal and the objectives of Brazilian nuclear policy, in addition to seeking to understand the context in which such discrepancy is inserted; and specifically describe the Brazilian nuclear project in the period 1962 and 1963, reflecting on the denuclearization project. To this end, the political and economic issue of Brazil is addressed in its national and international spectrum in order to contribute to the hypothesis that the disputes between the national-developmentalist nation project and the liberalist project generated contradictory decisions regarding the atomic issue that caused consequences adverse to national interests.