The Nuclear Club
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The Nuclear Club

How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
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The Nuclear Club

How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam

About this book

The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove Washington, Moscow, and London to throw their weight behind the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) banishing nuclear testing underground, the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco banning atomic armaments from Latin America, and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbidding more countries from joining the most exclusive club on Earth.

International society, the Cold War, and the imperial U.S. presidency were reformed from 1945 to 1970, when a global nuclear order was inaugurated, averting conflict in the industrial North and yielding what George Orwell styled a "peace that is no peace" everywhere else. Today the nuclear order legitimizes foreign intervention worldwide, empowering the nuclear club and, above all, the United States, to push sanctions and even preventive war against atomic outlaws, all in humanity's name.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Most Exclusive Club on Earth
  8. 1. “Peace That Is No Peace”: Revolution and Reaction after Hiroshima, 1945–1955
  9. 2. “Uncontrollable Anarchy”: Founding the Nuclear Club, 1956–1961
  10. 3. The Atomic Frontier: John F. Kennedy and Nuclear Containment, 1960–1962
  11. 4. Pax Nuclearis: Khrushchev, Kennedy, Mao, and the Moscow Treaty, 1962–1963
  12. 5. An “Impossible Possibility”: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Nonproliferation Treaty That Failed, 1963–1965
  13. 6. “This Side of the Angels”: LBJ, Vietnam, and Nuclear Peace, 1964–1966
  14. 7. “Tall Oaks from Little Acorns”: Making the Treaty of Tlatelolco, 1963–1967
  15. 8. “A Citadel of Learning”: Building an International Community, 1966–1968
  16. 9. “A Decent Level of International Law and Order”: Final Negotiations for the NPT, 1967–1970
  17. Conclusion: Saving Humanity from Itself
  18. Notes
  19. Index