Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In the shadow of Hiroshima : the United States and Asia in the aftermath of Japanese defeat
  • The Korean War, the atomic bomb and Asian-American estrangement
  • Securing the East Asian frontier : stalemate in Korea and the Japanese peace treaty
  • A greater sanction : the defense of South East Asia, the advent of the Eisenhower administration and the end of the Korean War
  • 'Atomic madness' : massive retaliation and the Bravo test
  • The aftermath of Bravo, the Indochina crisis and the emergence of SEATO
  • 'Asia for the Asians' : the first offshore islands crisis and the Bandung Conference
  • A nuclear strategy for SEATO and the problem of limited war in the Far East
  • Massive retaliation at bay : US-Japanese relations, nuclear deployment and the limited war debate
  • The second offshore islands crisis and the advent of flexible response
  • The Chinese bomb, American nuclear strategy in Asia and the escalation of the Vietnam War.