The origins of nuclear cooperation betweenBrazil and Argentina

This paper sets out to highlight the major �findings of my latest research on the origins of nuclear cooperation between Brazil and Argentina. Besides archival work and interviews, my findings draw on a “critical oral history” exercise which I ran with Professor Nicholas Wheeler of Birmingham University: a three-day collective interview with the Brazilian and Argentine historical actors who negotiated and implemented nuclear cooperation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The long interview was structured around recently declassified documents, giving us all an opportunity to confront personal memories with the written record.