Learning to love the bomb : Canada's nuclear weapons during the Cold War / Sean M. Maloney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maloney, Sean M., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Canada.

Nuclear weapons.

Canada--Military policy.

Canada.

Military policy.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

xxv, 471 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2007]

Summary:

Offers controversial data and conclusions about Canada's management of nuclear weapons and of its image on the world stage; Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents from the 1950s and 1960s

Contents:

Canada and the Cold War to 1951

Fear is not an option: a new strategy, 1952-1955

The goalie's big stick: Canadian strategy and the new look, 1955-1957

Information is power: Canada and nuclear weapons testing

There was only one catch: Diefenbaker takes control, 1956-1957

Is power nothing without control? continental defence problems and domestic politics, 1957-1959

Engines for Armageddon: Canadian nuclear forces and NATO, 1957-1960

Enter Thor's gauntlet, wielding a wrench: Canadian problems with the USAF Strategic Air Command, 1958-1960

Canada's nuclear crisis, part I: a year of transition, 1960

Canada's nuclear crisis, part II: frustrating incrementalism, 1961

Dodging the nuclear bullet: Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962-1963

Close to the apex: the Pearson government, nuclear weapons, and national security policy, 1963-1964

Delivering the bomb: Canada goes nuclear

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-458) and index.

ISBN:

9781574886160

1574886169

OCLC:

74029352