LEADER 00000cam a2200613 i 4500 001 on1286071315 003 OCoLC 005 20230929133626.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 211028s2022 caua ob 001 0 eng 010 2021052385 019 1286068264 020 1503631729|qelectronic book 020 9781503631724|qelectronic book 020 |z9781503630086|qhardcover 020 |z9781503636309|qpaperback 035 (OCoLC)1286071315|z(OCoLC)1286068264 040 DLC|beng|erda|epn|cDLC|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dN$T|dDLC|dYDX |dWAU|dUKAHL|dOCLCQ 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 RIDW 050 04 JZ5675|b.H857 2022 082 00 327.1/747|223/eng/20211122 090 JZ5675|b.H857 2022 100 1 Hunt, Jonathan R.,|d1983-|eauthor. 245 14 The nuclear club :|bhow America and the world policed the atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam /|cJonathan R. Hunt. 264 1 Stanford, California :|bStanford University Press,|c[2022] 300 1 online resource (xii, 359 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction : the most exclusive club on Earth -- "Peace that is no peace" : revolution and reaction after Hiroshima, 1945-1955 -- "Uncontrollable anarchy" : founding the nuclear club, 1956-1961 -- The atomic frontier : John F. Kennedy and nuclear containment, 1960- 1962 -- Pax Nuclearis : Khrushchev, Kennedy, Mao, and the Moscow Treaty, 1962-1963 -- An "impossible possibility" : Lyndon B. Johnson and the nonproliferation treaty that failed, 1963-1965 -- "This side of the angels" : LBJ, Vietnam, and nuclear peace, 1964-1966 -- "Tall oaks from little acorns" : making the treaty of Tlatelolco, 1963- 1967 -- "A citadel of learning" : building an international community, 1966-1968 -- "A decent level of international law and order" : final negotiations for the NPT, 1967-1970 -- Conclusion : Saving humanity from itself. 520 "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 588 Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2022). 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 1945-1989|2fast 650 0 Nuclear nonproliferation|xHistory. 650 0 Nuclear arms control|xGovernment policy|xHistory. 650 0 Nuclear nonproliferation|xGovernment policy|zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Nuclear arms control|xGovernment policy|zUnited States |xHistory. 650 7 Diplomatic relations.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 Nuclear arms control|xGovernment policy.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01039886 650 7 Nuclear nonproliferation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01040376 650 7 Nuclear nonproliferation|xGovernment policy.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01040378 651 0 United States|xForeign relations|y1945-1989. 651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iPrint version:|aHunt, Jonathan R., 1983-|tNuclear club |dStanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 |z9781503630086|w(DLC) 2021052384 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=3347491|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 948 |d20240319|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 9-29-23 3174 |lridw 994 92|bRID