The nuclear club : how America and the world policed the atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam /
"The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London to throw th...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the most exclusive club on Earth
- "Peace that is no peace" : revolution and reaction after Hiroshima, 1945-1955
- "Uncontrollable anarchy" : founding the nuclear club, 1956-1961
- The atomic frontier : John F. Kennedy and nuclear containment, 1960-1962
- Pax Nuclearis : Khrushchev, Kennedy, Mao, and the Moscow Treaty, 1962-1963
- An "impossible possibility" : Lyndon B. Johnson and the nonproliferation treaty that failed, 1963-1965
- "This side of the angels" : LBJ, Vietnam, and nuclear peace, 1964-1966
- "Tall oaks from little acorns" : making the treaty of Tlatelolco, 1963-1967
- "A citadel of learning" : building an international community, 1966-1968
- "A decent level of international law and order" : final negotiations for the NPT, 1967-1970
- Conclusion : Saving humanity from itself.