March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the PresentEbsco Publishing, 1987 - 311 pages Ronald E. Powaski offers the first complete, accessible history of the events, forces, and factors that have brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. He traces the evolution of the nuclear arms race from FDR's decision to develop an atomic bomb to Reagan's decision to continue its expansion in the 1980's. Focusing on the forces that have propelled the arms race and the reasons behind the repeated failures to check the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Powaski discusses such topics as the Manhattan Project, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, the debate over whether to share atomic information, the effect of nuclear weapons on U.S. military and foreign policy, and the role of these weapons in arms control negotiations in the last five presidential administrations. |
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... June 27 , 1940 , after British intelligence determined that the Germans were accelerating their nuclear research program , Roosevelt intensified the American effort . The National Defense Research Committee ( NDRC ) , under the ...
... June 27 , 1940 , after British intelligence determined that the Germans were accelerating their nuclear research program , Roosevelt intensified the American effort . The National Defense Research Committee ( NDRC ) , under the ...
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... June 1942 , Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill met at the President's home , in Hyde Park , New York , to dis- cuss progress on " Tube Alloys , " the British code - name for the atomic bomb project . By then it was ...
... June 1942 , Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill met at the President's home , in Hyde Park , New York , to dis- cuss progress on " Tube Alloys , " the British code - name for the atomic bomb project . By then it was ...
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... June 6 informed him that he had postponed the summit meeting with Stalin until July 15. The postpone- ment , Stimson recorded in his diary , would " give us more time" — undoubt- edly , to test the atomic bomb . ' 13 The Interim ...
... June 6 informed him that he had postponed the summit meeting with Stalin until July 15. The postpone- ment , Stimson recorded in his diary , would " give us more time" — undoubt- edly , to test the atomic bomb . ' 13 The Interim ...
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... June , Arthur Compton told Stimson : " If the bomb were not used in the present war , the world would have no ad- equate warning as to what was to be expected if war should break out again . Accordingly , in its first formal meeting on ...
... June , Arthur Compton told Stimson : " If the bomb were not used in the present war , the world would have no ad- equate warning as to what was to be expected if war should break out again . Accordingly , in its first formal meeting on ...
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... report on atomic energy . The Franck Report , which was com- pleted on June 11 , emphasized the need to consider nuclear weapons as a com- ponent of long - range national policy , rather than Truman , Hiroshima , and Nagasaki 17.
... report on atomic energy . The Franck Report , which was com- pleted on June 11 , emphasized the need to consider nuclear weapons as a com- ponent of long - range national policy , rather than Truman , Hiroshima , and Nagasaki 17.
Table des matières
5 | |
Truman and International Control of the Atom 19451947 | 29 |
4 | 39 |
Eisenhower and Massive Retaliation 19531961 | 60 |
Eisenhower and Nuclear Arms Control 19531961 | 74 |
Johnson Nuclear Weapons and the Pursuit of SALT | 113 |
Nixon and SALT I 19691972 | 127 |
Carter and SALT II 19771981 | 162 |
Reagan and the Rearmament of America 19811983 | 191 |
Reagan and Nuclear Arms Talks 1981 to the Present | 197 |
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accept administration administration's agreed agreement American nuclear argued atomic bomb atomic energy atomic weapons attack ballistic missiles Baruch believed bombers Brzezinski buildup Byrnes Carter ceiling Cold War Committee Conference crisis cruise missiles decision defense deploy deployment détente deterrent diplomatic Eisenhower Europe explosion first-strike Foreign Policy freeze FRUS Geneva Hereafter cited Herken hydrogen bomb Ibid ICBMs inspection Jacobsen and Stein Japan Japanese Johnson Joint Chiefs July June Kahan Kennedy Khrushchev Kissinger launchers Lilienthal limited Manhattan Project McNamara military MIRV missile gap Moscow negotiations Nixon November nuclear arms race nuclear arsenal nuclear testing nuclear weapons October Oppenheimer peace Pentagon political Potsdam Potsdam Conference President proposal quoted Reagan reduce Roosevelt SALT II Treaty Seaborg Secretary Senate SLBMs Soviet Union Soviet-American Stimson strategic arms superpowers Talbott talks targets test ban throw-weight Truman U.S. Arms Control U.S. Congress U.S. Department United Vance warheads Washington White House York
Fréquemment cités
Page 72 - In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Page 211 - Each Party undertakes not to develop, test, or deploy ABM systems or components which are sea-based, air-based, space-based, or mobile landbased.
Page 38 - US there can be no permanent modus vivendi, that it is desirable and necessary that the internal harmony of our society be disrupted, our traditional way of life be destroyed, the international authority of our state be broken, if Soviet power is to be secure.
Page 28 - The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers who will take such steps as he deems proper to effectuate these terms of surrender.
Page 62 - You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
Page 47 - States entering with reasonable confidence upon a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable counterforce at every point where they show signs of encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable world.
Page 142 - Each party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from the treaty if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this treaty, have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country.