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Kennedy, Macmillan and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961-63

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Kendrick Oliver

    1. University of Southampton, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Military and Strategic History (SMSH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 1-3

  3. Conception and Stalemate: the Test-Ban Debate, March 1954 to August 1961

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 4-32

  4. Progress to the Proving Grounds: August–December 1961

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 33-57

  5. ‘The “Two-Pronged Approach”’: December 1961 to April 1962

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 58-103

  6. The Advance of the Neutrals: April–October 1962

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 104-134

  7. ‘The Good Season’: October 1962 to March 1963

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 135-161

  8. ‘The Second Prize’: March–July 1963

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 162-206

  9. Conclusion

    • Kendrick Oliver
    Pages 207-210

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 211-252
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Drawing upon newly-released official and private papers, this book provides an intimate account of Anglo-American debates over one of the most grave and politically sensitive foreign-policy issues of the early 1960s. It examines the roles played by John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan in the test-ban negotiations between 1961 and 1963. It also describes the way in which contrasting domestic political imperatives and conceptions of how the Cold War could best be won, created tensions between the two allies. Nevertheless, they retained a broad unity of perspective and purpose, eventually producing the imaginative diplomacy that resulted in the signing of the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty in August 1963.

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  • University of Southampton, UK

    Kendrick Oliver

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