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Double-edged sword : nuclear diplomacy in unequal conflicts : the United States and China, 1950-1958 / Appu K. Soman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soman, Appu Kuttan, 1951-
- Series:
- Praeger studies in diplomacy and strategic thought.
- Praeger studies in diplomacy and strategic thought, 1076-1543
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--United States.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons--China.
- United States--Foreign relations--China.
- United States.
- China--Foreign relations--United States.
- China.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- China--Foreign relations--1949-1976.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work explores the efficacy of nuclear diplomacy and the consequences of American nuclear-brinkmanship, via a study of the political and diplomatic role of America's nuclear capabilities in conflicts with a non-nuclear China during the Korean War and the Taiwan Strait Crises.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The Limits of Nuclear Coercion: Nuclear Diplomacy in the Korean War; 4 A ''Rash and Quixotic Policy'': The Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1954 1955; 5 ''Who's Daddy'' in the Taiwan Strait? The Offshore Islands Crisis of 1958; 6 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-84-00-64230-2
- 1-280-31561-X
- 9786610315611
- 0-313-04671-9
- 1-56750-941-X
- OCLC:
- 75649132
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