Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons

✍ Scribed by Donette Murray (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Series: Cold War History Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons makes exhaustive use of newly-opened archive sources in a successful bid to offer an authoritative and compelling account of Anglo-American defence relations during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. This coherent and well-written survey presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis yet of Anglo-American relations during the early 1960s. Reserving special attention for those intriguing questions traditionally left unanswered by historians the author goes about a systematic review of the period and in the process comes to some remarkable conclusions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Special Relations?....Pages 13-30
The Origins of a Crisis....Pages 31-44
Chaos and Confusion — Allies in Trouble....Pages 45-56
A Crisis Explained....Pages 57-80
Finding a Solution — The Nassau Compromise....Pages 81-104
A New Foreign Policy Initiative — Are There Any Takers?....Pages 105-121
Do or Die — The Making and Breaking of the Multilateral Nuclear Force....Pages 122-143
Conclusion....Pages 144-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-220

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Military and Defence Studies; History of Britain and Ireland; History of the Americas; Modern History