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Overview"The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 quickly ushered in a popular and political movement toward nuclear disarmament. Across the globe, heads of state, high-ranking ministers, and bureaucrats led intense efforts to achieve effective disarmament agreements. Ultimately these efforts failed. In """"The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma"""", David Tal offers a detailed analysis of U.S. policy from 1945 to the summer of 1963, exploring the reasons for failure and revealing the complex motivations that eventually led to the Limited Test Ban Treaty.While previous books have focused on the policies of specific administrations, Tal's is the first to consider negotiations as an evolving phenomenon that preoccupied three presidents, from Truman to Kennedy. Drawing on extensive archival research, the author examines the profound dilemma faced by leaders on all sides - forced by political pressure to engage in negotiations whose success they saw as injurious to national interests. Far from believing that the nuclear arms race would inevitably lead to war, the United States regarded nuclear weapons as the greatest guarantee that war would not happen." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David TalPublisher: Syracuse University Press Imprint: Syracuse University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.039kg ISBN: 9780815631668ISBN 10: 0815631669 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 30 September 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe most thorough and most authoritative study to date of the evolution of U.S. nuclear disarmament policy. - Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years The most thorough and most authoritative study to date of the evolution of U.S. nuclear disarmament policy. - Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years Author InformationDavid Tal is a visiting professor of history at Emory University and has been a visiting associate professor of history and international relations at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is the author of War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy and the editor of The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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