"Based on unique access to the IAEA Archives in Vienna and numerous interviews with leading diplomats and scientists, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically grounded, and independent study on the history of the International Atomic Energy Agency"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note:1. One World or None -- 2. Atoms for Peace -- 3. Cold War Vienna -- 4. Science, Safeguards, and Bureaucracy -- 5. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- 6. Gaps in the System -- 7. North-South Tensions -- 8. Chernobyl -- 9. The Nuclear Watchdog.