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Nuclear Apartheid : The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present /

After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system "nuclear apartheid." Here is an illuminating lo...

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Autor principal: Maddock, Shane J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a The ideal number of nuclear weapons states is one: nuclear nonproliferation and the quest for American atomic supremacy -- Too stupid even for the funny papers: the myth of the American atomic monopoly, 1939-1945 -- Winning weapons: A-bombs, H-bombs, and international control, 1946-1953 -- The president in the gray flannel suit: conformity, technological utopianism, and nonproliferation, 1953-1956 -- Seeking a silver bullet: nonproliferation, the test ban, and nuclear sharing, 1957-1960 -- Tests and toughness: JFK's false start on the proliferation question, 1961-1962 -- Too big to spank: JFK, nuclear hegemony, and the limited test ban treaty, 1962-1963 -- Hunting for Easter eggs: LBJ, NATO, and nonproliferation 1963-1965 -- A treaty to castrate the impotent: codifying nuclear apartheid, 1965-1970 -- The legacy of nuclear apartheid. 
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