Chapter 2 – The Transition from Roosevelt to Truman
Chapter 3 – The Truman Administration and U.S. Nuclear Strategy
Chapter 4 – The End of the U.S. Nuclear Monopoly
Chapter 5 – Eisenhower and Emboldening the Nuclear Option
Chapter 6 – Kennedy’s Nuclear Dilemma
Chapter 7 – The Johnson Years
Chapter 8 – The Search for Détente: Nixon and the Ford Transition
Chapter 9 – Carter’s Lost Opportunity
Chapter 10 – The Tale of Two Terms: The Reagan Diplomatic Transition
Afterword
Aiden Warren, Associate Professor of International Relations, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Joseph M. Siracusa, Professor of Political History and International Security, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Given debates surrounding the emerging “new Cold War,” this book provides a much needed revisit into the US foreign policy nuclear domain during the 1945-1990 period. Across nine chapters, the monograph traces the United States’ nuclear diplomacy and Presidential strategic thought, transitioning across the early period of Cold War arms racing through to the era’s defining conclusion. It reveals that despite the heightened periods when great power conflict seemed imminent, arms control fora and seminal agreements were able to be devised and implemented, providing a needed base in improving bilateral relations—as well as momentarily bringing down the specter of a cataclysmic nuclear war.
Aiden Warren, Associate Professor of International Relations, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Joseph M. Siracusa, Professor of Political History and International Security, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.