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The Problematic Ratification of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Matteo Gerlini 141 Energy Independence vs. Nuclear Safeguards: the US Attitude toward the European Fast Breeder Reactors Program Marilena Gala 151 Italy’s Role in the Implementation of the Dual-Track Decision Part III - Public Opinion and Anti-nuclear Movements Laura Ciglioni 165 Italian Mass Media and the Atom in the 1960s: The Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Peaceful Atom (1963-1967) Giulia Iannuzzi 181 Italian Science Fiction, Nuclear Technologies: Narrative Strategies between the “Two Cultures” (1950s-1970s) Renato Moro 199 Against the Euromissiles: Anti-nuclear Movements in 1980s Italy (1979-1984) Angelo Baracca, Saverio Craparo, Roberto Livi, Stefano Ruffo 213 The Role of Physics Students at the University of Florence in the Early Italian Anti-nuclear Movements (1975-1987) Part IV - The Role of Scientists and Scientific Research Giovanni Paoloni 229 Nuclear Energy and Science Policy in Post-war Italy Lodovica Clavarino 245 “Many Countries Will Have the Bomb: There Will Be Hell”: Edoardo Amaldi and the Italian Physicists Committed to Disarmament, Arms Control and Détente 6 Carlo Patti 259 An Unusual Partnership: Brazilian-Italian Forms of Cooperation in the Nuclear Field (1951-1986) Giorgio Ferrari Ruffino 271 A Particular Experience: How a Nuclear Expert Became an Antinuke 287 Abstracts 297 Contributors 305 Index 7 Abbreviations AA/USP Arquivo Álvaro Alberto, Centro Interunidade de História da Ciência, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil AAm Archivio Amaldi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italia AAn Archivio Andreotti, Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Roma, Italia AAPD Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Das Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Berlin, Germany ABC Academia Brasileira de Ciência ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ACS Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Roma, Italia AEC Atomic Energy Commission AECL Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. 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