Files in this item
The curious case of the nuclear company of Britain and Iran
Item metadata
dc.contributor.author | Ansari, Ali M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-08T12:30:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-08T12:30:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ansari , A M 2017 , ' The curious case of the nuclear company of Britain and Iran ' , Iran: Journal of British Institute of Persian Studies , vol. 55 , no. 1 , pp. 73-86 . https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2016.1277098 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0578-6967 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 241731885 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: ed032f5c-56e5-47b9-b0fe-05a150575445 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85026880750 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000406570400009 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/8951 | |
dc.description.abstract | In February 1977, on a routine visit to Tehran, Sir Walter Marshall, the chief scientist at the department of Energy and deputy chairman of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, was made a seemingly impromptu “radical proposal” by the then head of the Atomic Energy Organisation, Dr Akbar Etemad for a strategic collaboration between the emergent nuclear industry of Iran and that of the UK which faced an uncertain future. Etemad’s proposal envisioned Iranian capital combining with British expertise in the form of a joint company that would be the salvation of both and mark a definitive new era in British–Iranian relations. Eighteen months of tough negotiations ended, failing to yield the desired commitment. But the encounter, largely ignored by historians sheds important new light on the politics of development in both Iran and the UK, along with the complexities of policy-making, and not least, the subtleties of the British–Iranian relationship in what would turn out to be the twilight of the Pahlavi dynasty. | |
dc.format.extent | 14 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Iran: Journal of British Institute of Persian Studies | en |
dc.rights | © 2017 British Institute of Persian Studies. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at: https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2016.1277098 | en |
dc.subject | British-Iranian relations | en |
dc.subject | Nuclear industry | en |
dc.subject | Development | en |
dc.subject | Akbar Etemad | en |
dc.subject | Walter Marshall | en |
dc.subject | The Shah | en |
dc.subject | JZ International relations | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | BDC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | JZ | en |
dc.title | The curious case of the nuclear company of Britain and Iran | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of History | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Global Law and Governance | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2016.1277098 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.