Tecnologia nuclear : O PROSUB como ferramenta de Desenvolvimento Nacional

Abstract

NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY: THE SUBMARINE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (PROSUB) AS A NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOL The main goal of the present research was to analyze how the Submarine Development Program (Prosub) has presented itself as a result of a long time Brazilian struggle to develop within national land such technologies that historically have been possessed exclusively by the great world powers. Furthermore, this work has shown how national projects of a strategic nature have a dual character and are an enormous source of national development. Thus, the first chapter addressed the theoretical part of International Relations and Defense capable of explaining the international dynamics regarding the development of cutting-edge technologies in countries such as Brazil. Then, the second chapter featured a historical analysis of the trajectory of nuclear technology in the country, demonstrating how the possession of such sensitive technology resulted in national autonomy and contributed to the increase of strategic thinking, conferring relevance to the field of defense and bringing benefits for civil society. PROSUB was also analyzed as a inflection point of national defense, being a strategic program that reached the high level of Brazilian politics. Finally, the third chapter studied the contribution of nuclear technology to the nation’s development and its increase in Brazil’s power projection capacity. Their influence on civil society and the benefits that such programs confer on the entire state had also been analyzed. This research is justified by its contribution to the subject of Defense, so incipient within Brazil, but still so important, fomenting the formation of a kind of national thought which is more oriented to the affirmation of Brazil within the international context, and for assuring its interests. Thus, this research intends to contribute for the task of bringing together civil society and the area of Defense, unveiling the gains such area provides by supporting the State in its constitutional and non-delegable mission that is defending itself.