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This was the nickname of an Eisenhower administration initiative to promote peaceful uses for nuclear energy. Its general gist was followed by other early nuclear western powers like Canada. The motives were commercial and strategic. Existing nuclear powers proceeded on the assumption that the spread of nuclear technology was inevitable but that going with the flow could somehow limit the ultimate spread of nuclear weapons. In reality some of this peaceful aid in the nuclear field became the basis for weapons programs in multiple countries.
So what if the U.S. (and Canada and the UK at least) had instead followed a post-WWII policy of nuclear miserliness, attempting to limit the spread of the technology rather than go with the flow?
What would the distribution of nuclear energy programs and nuclear weapons have been like worldwide in 1970, 1990 or 2009 after six decades of a policy of nuclear miserliness. Would there be more or fewer nuclear armed states?