Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

United Atoms in a Divided World:The Early History of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies

Film PresentationMetro Kino 1., Johannesgasse 4

16–18 September 2012Vienna, Austria

Conference VenueDachfoyer Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv1., Minoritenplatz 1

UNIVERSITY OF VIENNAUniversitätsring 11010 ViennaT +43-1-4277-0www.univie.ac.at

The conference is organized by: Department of Contemporary HistoryFaculty of Historical and Cultural StudiesUniversity of Vienna

Supported by:

The Research Project “The Early History of the IAEA” is supported by funds of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Anniversary Fund, project number: 14405)

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Contact: Elisabeth RöhrlichDepartment of Contemporary History Spitalgasse 2–41090 Vienna

elisabeth.roehrlich@univie.ac.atT +43-1-4277-412 33iaea-history.univie.ac.at

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Sunday, 16 September 2012

19 : 30 Film Presentation: The Beginnings of the IAEA in Vienna (Metro Kino) (Curated and introduced by Leopold Kammerhofer and Marta Riess, IAEA Archives)

Monday, 17 September 2012

9 : 0 0 – 9 : 30 Registration

9 : 30 Welcome

10 : 0 0 –12 : 30 Panel 1: The Early Years of International Nuclear Cooperation The Soviet Union and the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy:

The Beginnings of International Control David Holloway (Stanford)

The Third Nuclear Power: The UK and the Creation of the IAEA Stephen Twigge (Kew)

From New York to Vienna: The IAEA Headquarters in Austria Elisabeth Röhrlich (Vienna)

Euratom and the IAEA: The Problem of Self-Inspection John Krige (Atlanta)

Chair: Christian Ostermann (Washington)

14 : 30 –17: 0 0 Panel 2: The IAEA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime China and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, 1964–1989

Xin Zhan (Changchun)

The Indian Nuclear Program A. Vinod Kumar (New Delhi)

The South African Nuclear Program and the IAEA Jo-Ansie van Wyk (Pretoria)

The Peaceful Nuclear Explosion Debates Robert Anderson (Vancouver)

Chair: Leopoldo Nuti (Rome)

17: 30 –19 : 30 Podium Discussion (in cooperation with DER STANDARD) with Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut, TU Vienna)

Joseph F. Pilat (Los Alamos National Laboratories) Gudrun Harrer (DER STANDARD, Vienna)

Chair: Oliver Rathkolb (Vienna)

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

9 : 0 0 –11: 0 0 Panel 3: Grass-Roots Movements, Environmentalism, and the IAEA The Politics of Security: Protests against Nuclear Weapons and

International Relations in the 1950s and early 1960s Holger Nehring (Sheffield)

The Question of Nuclear Safety and the Rise of Environmentalism in Western Europe: Transnational Perspectives Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus)

The IAEA and the Debate on the Health Effects of Chernobyl Karena Kalmbach (Florence)

Chair: Bernd Greiner (Hamburg)

12 : 0 0 –14 : 0 0 Panel 4: Promoting the Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Technology Imagined Modernity. Nuclear Power and West German Society in the 1960s

Gabriele Metzler (Berlin)

"La domestication de l’atome c’est le steak grillé avec l‘énergie nucléaire“ – Nuclear Optimism in European Newsreels Eugen Pfister (Vienna)

Three Mile Island: The First Great Nuclear Power Crisis J. Samuel Walker (Washington)

Chair: Carola Sachse (Vienna)

14 : 0 0 –15: 0 0 Concluding Remarks Oliver Rathkolb and Elisabeth Röhrlich