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OverviewThe Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London to throw their weight behind the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) banishing nuclear testing underground, the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco banning atomic armaments from Latin America, and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbidding more countries from joining the most exclusive club on Earth. International society, the Cold War, and the imperial U.S. presidency were reformed from 1945 to 1970, when a global nuclear order was inaugurated, averting conflict in the industrial North and yielding what George Orwell styled a ""peace that is no peace"" everywhere else. Today the nuclear order legitimizes foreign intervention worldwide, empowering the nuclear club and, above all, the United States, to push sanctions and even preventive war against atomic outlaws, all in humanity's name. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan R. HuntPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9781503636309ISBN 10: 1503636305 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 29 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction: The Most Exclusive Club on Earth 1. ""Peace That Is No Peace"": Revolution and Reaction After Hiroshima, 1945–1955 2. ""Uncontrollable Anarchy"": Founding the Nuclear Club, 1956–1961 3. The Atomic Frontier: John F. Kennedy and Nuclear Containment, 1960–1962 4. Pax Nuclearis: Khrushchev, Kennedy, Mao, and the Moscow Treaty, 1962–1963 5. An ""Impossible Possibility"": Lyndon Johnson and the Nonproliferation Treaty That Failed, 1963–1965 6. ""This Side of the Angels"": LBJ, Vietnam, and Nuclear Peace, 1964–1966 7. ""Tall Oaks from Little Acorns"": Making the Treaty of Tlatelolco, 1963–1967 8. ""A Citadel of Learning"": Building an International Community, 1966–1968 9. ""A Decent Level of International Law and Order"": Final Negotiations for the NPT, 1967–1970 Conclusion: Saving Humanity from Itself"ReviewsThe Nuclear Club exposes a founding myth of the postwar order: that if great powers no longer fought each other, a more peaceful world would result. Jonathan Hunt shows how Cold War diplomacy defined who could intervene, be it for nuclear non-proliferation or humanitarian reasons, and how these interventions ultimately undermined the peacekeeping basis of the UN Charter. -- Elizabeth Borgwardt * author of <i>A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights</i> * In this ambitious and deeply researched study, Jonathan Hunt presents a sweeping international history of the rise and establishment of the nuclear non-proliferation regime after 1945. Packed with insightful analysis and telling detail, The Nuclear Club fills an important gap in our knowledge of the nuclear age. -- Matthew Jones * London School of Economics and Political Science * The Nuclear Club is eye-opening. Jonathan Hunt excavates the history of nuclear nonproliferation to reveal the central paradoxes at the heart of international relations. Deeply researched and thoroughly engaging, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the past, present, and future of world order. -- Andrew Preston * author of <i>American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction</i> * Jonathan Hunt's The Nuclear Club is a major achievement. It both traces the many failed efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons in the early 1960s and lifts the curtain in front of the international negotiations that finally led to the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1968. -- Scott D. Sagan * Stanford University * The Nuclear Club exposes a founding myth of the postwar order: that if great powers no longer fought each other, a more peaceful world would result. Jonathan Hunt shows how Cold War diplomacy defined who could intervene, be it for nuclear non-proliferation or humanitarian reasons, and how these interventions ultimately undermined the peacekeeping basis of the UN Charter. -Elizabeth Borgwardt, author of A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights In this ambitious and deeply researched study, Jonathan Hunt presents a sweeping international history of the rise and establishment of the nuclear non-proliferation regime after 1945. Packed with insightful analysis and telling detail, The Nuclear Club fills an important gap in our knowledge of the nuclear age. -Matthew Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science The Nuclear Club is eye-opening. Jonathan Hunt excavates the history of nuclear nonproliferation to reveal the central paradoxes at the heart of international relations. Deeply researched and thoroughly engaging, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the past, present, and future of world order. -Andrew Preston, author of American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction Jonathan Hunt's The Nuclear Club is a major achievement. It both traces the many failed efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons in the early 1960s and lifts the curtain in front of the international negotiations that finally led to the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1968. -Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University Author InformationJonathan Hunt is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the United States Air War College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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