Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons

by Donette Murray

Overview

Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons makes exhaustive use of newly-opened archive sources in a successful bid to offer an authoritative and compelling account of Anglo-American defence relations during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. This coherent and well-written survey presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis yet of Anglo-American relations during the early 1960s. Reserving special attention for those intriguing questions traditionally left unanswered by historians the author goes about a systematic review of the period and in the process comes to some remarkable conclusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349150069
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/09/1999
Series:	Cold War History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2000
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

DONETTE MURRAY is a lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Ulster at Coleraine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Special Relations? The Origins of a Crisis Chaos and Confusion - Allies in Trouble A Crisis Explained Finding a Solution - The Nassau Compromise A New Foreign Policy Initiative - Are There Any Takers? Do or Die - The Making and Breaking of the Multilateral Nuclear Force Conclusion Notes and References Glossary of Names Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

The Skybolt missile cancellation and the Multilateral Nuclear Force proposal are two major problems that Murray (history, U. of Ulster-Coleraine) describes as threatening the relations between the Cold War allies. She also investigates the Special Relationship that some say do, some say did once, and some say does not exist between them. She draws on newly opened archival material. Her study began as a Ph.D. dissertation in 1997. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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