Sharing Nuclear Secrets
Trust, Mistrust, and Ambiguity in Anglo-American Nuclear Relations Since 1939
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 June 2023
- ISBN 9780198875116
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages362 pages
- Size 240x162x28 mm
- Weight 686 g
- Language English 299
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Short description:
Sharing Nuclear Secrets is a comprehensive single-volume study of the Anglo-American nuclear relationship, illuminating both its fragility and durability.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Wartime Period, 1939-1945: Laying the Foundations
A Breakdown and Partial Rebirth of Nuclear Trust, 1945-1952
Progress and Suspicions, 1952-1956
Re-building Nuclear Trust, 1956-1958
Nuclear Trust Challenged, 1958-1963
'Independent' Deterrence, the MLF and the Future of Polaris, 1963-1969
Polaris Improvement: Realism (dis)unity and détente, 1969-1974
Evolving Deterrence Requirements: Chevaline, SALT II, and European Security, 1974-1979
Trident and the Death of Détente, 1979-1982
Alliance Nuclear Modernisation and SDI Dilemmas, 1982-1989
After the Cold War: Special Still More, 1990-2016
Continuities and 'Pebbles in the Shoe', 2016-2022
Conclusion
