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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456384203321

Autore

Maddock Shane J

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4696-0422-1

0-8078-9584-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/7470973

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons - Government policy - United States - History

Nuclear arms control - United States - History

Nuclear nonproliferation - United States - History

Nuclear weapons - Government policy - Developing countries - History

Nuclear arms control - Developing countries - History

Nuclear nonproliferation - Developing countries - History

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Developing countries

Developing countries Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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