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Nuclear Apartheid
Shane J Maddock
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Description for Nuclear Apartheid
Paperback / so. Nuclear Apartheid: The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW; HBLX; JPSD; JPSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system ""nuclear apartheid.""
Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S. and international archives, Shane Maddock offers the first full-length study of nuclear apartheid, casting a spotlight on an ideological outlook that nurtured atomic inequality and established the United States--in its own mind--as the most legitimate nuclear power. Beginning with the discovery of fission in 1939 and ending with George ... Read more
After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shut out. An Indian diplomat called the system ""nuclear apartheid.""
Drawing on recently declassified sources from U.S. and international archives, Shane Maddock offers the first full-length study of nuclear apartheid, casting a spotlight on an ideological outlook that nurtured atomic inequality and established the United States--in its own mind--as the most legitimate nuclear power. Beginning with the discovery of fission in 1939 and ending with George ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469613932
SKU
V9781469613932
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About Shane J Maddock
Shane J. Maddock is professor of history at Stonehill College, USA. He is coauthor of American Foreign Relations: A History and editor of The Nuclear Age.
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