When the Nuclear Nonprolif-eration Treaty (NPT) was negotiated and entered into force in 1970, peaceful nuclear power was viewed as a technology with great economic potential for all countries, both industrialized and developing. Joining the NPT was a quid pro quo under which non-weapons states renounced nuclear weapons in return for obtaining access to the technology and materials necessary to exploit commercial nuclear power - a concept that goes back to President Eisenhower's 1954 "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
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