Overview
- Draws on some of the most recently declassified British and US government documents to explore the relationship between the US, UK and Pakistan’s nuclear programme in the 1970s
- Offers an important addition to the historiography of the ‘special relationship’ between the US and the UK, nuclear non-proliferation, and the post-colonial world
- Expands and furthers the debate on the role and salience of the cultural construct of religion in foreign affairs and on those who make foreign policy
Part of the book series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World (SCCCW)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan’s nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 and the decline of sustained non-proliferation activity from mid-1979 onwards. It is a tale of cooperation between Washington and London, but also a story of divisions and disputes. The brutal economic realities of the decade, globalisation, and wider geopolitical challenges all complicated this relationship. Policy and action were also affected by changes elsewhere in the world. Iran’s 1979 revolution brought a new form of political Islamic radicalism to prominence. The fears engendered by the Ayatollah and his followers, coupled to the blustering rhetoric of Pakistani leaders, gave rise to the ‘Islamic bomb’, a nuclear weapon supposedly created by Pakistan to be shared amongst the Muslim ummah. This study thus combines cultural, diplomatic, economic, and political history to offer a rigorous, deeply researched account of a critical moment in nuclear history.
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About the author
Malcolm Craig gained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2014, and has taught at Edinburgh, UK, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, and is currently Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research focuses on American and British foreign policy in the post-1945 period, with particular interests in national security, nuclear proliferation, state secrecy, and the role of the media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: America, Britain and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1974-1980
Book Subtitle: A Dream of Nightmare Proportions
Authors: Malcolm M. Craig
Series Title: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51880-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51879-4Published: 10 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84768-9Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51880-0Published: 26 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6807
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 319
Topics: Modern History, History of South Asia, US History, History of Military, History of Science, Political History