Over the past years, the emerging scholarship in the field of nuclear history has increasingly dealt with non-traditional nuclear cases, including Sweden,[1] Pakistan,[2] Ghana,[3] and most recently Kazakhstan.[4] In this direction, the inclusion of Brazil into the debate is a much sought-after addition, considering the more than seven decades of pursuing various goals in the nuclear sector, which is at the core of Carlo Patti’s new book, Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945–2018.

Based on 12 years of personally conducted archival research across the globe (in Brazil, Argentina, Germany, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Italy), Patti, who is a professor of international relations at the Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, adds meaningful points to the debate on the global nuclear order, discussing key aspects such as international arms control and safeguards, technological assistance and sensitive cooperation, and the creation of a Latin American Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ).