BRAZILIAN NUCLEAR POLICY: EVOLUTION, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
- Authors: Gribanova G.1
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Affiliations:
- St.Petersburg University
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 6-18
- Section: Policy
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0044-748X/article/view/277168
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044748X25020013
- ID: 277168
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Abstract. Brazil's current level of development in the nuclear field is the result of a combination of a number of domestic, regional and international factors. Constant attention to the state of science and technological progress on the part of the state, the availability of its own sources of radioactive materials, and, most importantly, the political will of its leaders, who, regardless of ideological differences and political preferences, considered the development of the country's nuclear program (both for peaceful and military purposes) as an important component of the nation's economic progress, – all this has allowed Brazil to achieve serious success in this area. However, this would not have been possible without international cooperation. The historical analysis shows how and why the country's leadership has refocused from full dependence on US assistance to full-fledged cooperation within the BRICS framework.
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Galina Gribanova
St.Petersburg University
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Email: GGribanova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4313-5178
SPIN-code: 1924-7412
Scopus Author ID: 56815132300
ResearcherId: M-5194-2015
Профессор, и.о. зав. каф. международных политических процессов
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