Nuclear apartheid : the quest for American atomic supremacy from World War II to the present / Shane J. Maddock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maddock, Shane J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States--History.

Nuclear weapons.

Nuclear arms control--United States--History.

Nuclear arms control.

Nuclear nonproliferation--United States--History.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--Developing countries--History.

Nuclear arms control--Developing countries--History.

Nuclear nonproliferation--Developing countries--History.

United States--Foreign relations--Developing countries.

United States.

Developing countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.""Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S. and international archives, Shane Maddock offers the first full-length study of nuclear apartheid, casting a spotlight on an ideological outlook that nurtured atomic inequality and established the United States--in its own mind--as the most legitimate nuclear power. Beginning

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The Ideal Number of Nuclear Weapons States Is One: Nuclear Nonproliferation and the Quest for American Atomic Supremacy; 2 Too Stupid Even for the Funny Papers: The Myth of the American Atomic Monopoly, 1939-1945; 3 Winning Weapons: A-Bombs, H-Bombs, and International Control, 1946-1953; 4 The President in the Gray Flannel Suit: Conformity, Technological Utopianism, and Nonproliferation, 1953-1956; 5 Seeking a Silver Bullet: Nonproliferation, the Test Ban, and Nuclear Sharing, 1957-1960

6 Tests and Toughness: JFK's False Start on the Proliferation Question, 1961-19627 Too Big to Spank: JFK, Nuclear Hegemony, and the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1962-1963; 8 Hunting for Easter Eggs: LBJ, NATO, and Nonproliferation, 1963-1965; 9 A Treaty to Castrate the Impotent: Codifying Nuclear Apartheid, 1965-1970; 10 The Legacy of Nuclear Apartheid; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908832-1-6

979-88-9313-326-4

1-4696-0422-1

0-8078-9584-9

OCLC:

608692483