First legal instruments of Nuclear Law

Abstract

Being a Social Science, law emerges to regulate a new event after it occurs, as it is the case with Nuclear Energy. When the existence of this energy became known and the first study groups were formed, legal regulation came forth and began to order the events. It is important to recount the conditions under which these first norms of nuclear law were  formed, their historical context and their effects. This work describes how the first agreement between countries linked to the manufacture of the atomic bomb was developed, the historical period in which it originated and how the first nuclear activity law in history was approved. This new law’s regulations remained in the memory of future nuclear laws and administrations that came afterwards, not only in the United States of America, but also in the rest of the world, defiling the relationship between this new way of generating electrical energy and the societies that were able to take advantage of it.