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Eisenhower and the Cold War Arms Race: ‘Open Skies’ and the Military-Industrial Complex
Helen Bury
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Description for Eisenhower and the Cold War Arms Race: ‘Open Skies’ and the Military-Industrial Complex
Hardback. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex is the first in-depth study of the Open Skies policy and essential reading for historians of the Cold War and the International Relations of the United States. Series: Library of Modern American History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 221 x 29. Weight in Grams: 522.
Under the growing shadow of the Cold War, President Eisenhower announced his 'Open Skies' initiative to Soviet, British and French delegations at the Geneva Summit in 1955. In a climate of intense fear and suspicion, this proposed system of mutual aerial inspection was dismissed by Khrushchev and the Soviet Union as nothing more than an 'espionage plot'. Nevertheless, Eisenhower campaigned for its implementation until the end of his presidency. Here, Helen Bury provides a new interpretation of Eisenhower's 'Open Skies' programme, arguing that it functioned as a corrective to John Foster Dulles' 'New Look' defence strategy - which relied on ... Read more
Under the growing shadow of the Cold War, President Eisenhower announced his 'Open Skies' initiative to Soviet, British and French delegations at the Geneva Summit in 1955. In a climate of intense fear and suspicion, this proposed system of mutual aerial inspection was dismissed by Khrushchev and the Soviet Union as nothing more than an 'espionage plot'. Nevertheless, Eisenhower campaigned for its implementation until the end of his presidency. Here, Helen Bury provides a new interpretation of Eisenhower's 'Open Skies' programme, arguing that it functioned as a corrective to John Foster Dulles' 'New Look' defence strategy - which relied on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Library of Modern American History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780762791
SKU
V9781780762791
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About Helen Bury
Helen Bury has just completed her PhD in Modern History under Gerard De Groot at the University of St. Andrews. She also has a Masters in International Relations from the University of Lancaster.
Reviews for Eisenhower and the Cold War Arms Race: ‘Open Skies’ and the Military-Industrial Complex
President Eisenhower's various nuclear initiatives, including Atoms for Peace and Open Skies, have usually been judged by historians as hopelessly naive or cynically manipulative. Dr Helen Bury, with a fresh look at evidence from a wide variety of sources, takes an entirely new approach in her analysis of Open Skies, which begins with a very simple proposition: 'what if ... Read more