John Baylis, Anthony Eames

Sharing Nuclear Secrets (eBook, ePUB)

Trust, Mistrust, and Ambiguity in Anglo-American Nuclear Relations Since 1939

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nuclear alliances are high stakes partnerships with the potential to enhance security, goodwill, scientific and technical innovation, and economic well-being; or, they risk a state's very existence, generate social and political unrest, and fracture frameworks for international cooperation and jeopardize global reputations. Now entering its eighth decade, the Anglo-American nuclear alliance is the oldest and most complex in the world. Sharing Nuclear Secrets is the first comprehensive single-volume study of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship, illuminating both its fragility and durability. It has waxed and waned based on the preferences of presidents and prime ministers, weathered war scares, overcome isolationist impulses and imperial decline, persisted despite public antipathy, and has survived and been strengthened by scientific rivalries. Trust and ambiguity are entangled at the core of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. The interplay between trust and ambiguity has influenced the way the nuclear partnership has been institutionalized at bureaucratic and technical levels, but also the ways in which political actors and private citizens have maintained the relationship through periods of crisis, moments of triumph, and through decades of cultural reckoning with nuclear weapons. From the days of the Manhattan Project, through the crisis of Suez and criticism of Dr. Strangelove, to the end of the Cold War, and into present day circumstances brought about by the JCPOA, AUKUS, and Russian nuclear threats over Ukraine, Sharing Nuclear Secrets reveals that ambiguity is key to keeping the balance between sentiment and interests and the corresponding equilibrium between trust and mistrust in the special relationship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198875130
• Artikelnr.: 68167591

Autorenporträt

John Baylis is currently an Emeritus Professor at Swansea University. He has taught at Liverpool University and later at Aberystwyth University, where he was Professor of International Politics and Dean of Social Sciences. Before retiring he was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Swansea University. He obtained his Master's Degree and PhD from Aberystwith University and his D.Litt from Swansea University. He spent two periods teaching in the United States at the University of Virginia and Brigham Young University. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Historical Society. Anthony Eames is the Director of Scholarly Initiatives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, and also a professorial lecturer in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He earned his PhD in history from Georgetown University and holds a master's degree from King's College London. In addition to his monographs, Eames' scholarship has appeared in Technology & Culture, Journal of Military History, Mediterranean Quarterly, and other publications. He has spoken widely on nuclear and national security issues in both the United States and United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction * 2: The Wartime Period
1939-1945: Laying the Foundations * 3: A Breakdown and Partial Rebirth of Nuclear Trust
1945-1952 * 4: Progress and Suspicions
1952-1956 * 5: Re-building Nuclear Trust
1956-1958 * 6: Nuclear Trust Challenged
1958-1963 * 7: 'Independent' Deterrence
the MLF and the Future of Polaris
1963-1969 * 8: Polaris Improvement: Realism (dis)unity and détente
1969-1974 * 9: Evolving Deterrence Requirements: Chevaline
SALT II
and European Security
1974-1979 * 10: Trident and the Death of Détente
1979-1982 * 11: Alliance Nuclear Modernisation and SDI Dilemmas
1982-1989 * 12: After the Cold War: Special Still More
1990-2016 * 13: Continuities and 'Pebbles in the Shoe'
2016-2022 * 14: Conclusion