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Author Watson, Cynthia Ann.

Title U.S. national security : a reference handbook / Cynthia A. Watson.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2002]
©2002

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 Moore Stacks  UA23 .W36397 2002    Available  ---
Description xiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Contemporary world issues
Contemporary world issues.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface -- 1. Introduction -- What is national security? -- Old days : Cold War, 1947-1989 -- New threats since 1989 -- Changing national security apparatus -- Notes -- 2. Enduring questions in U.S. national security -- Past controversies -- Current controversies -- Notes -- 3. Chronology -- 4. Personalities -- 5. Documents -- United Nations charter (1945) -- "The long telegram" (1946) -- Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (1946) -- Truman Doctrine (1947) -- Marshall Plan speech (1947) -- "Mr. X" article in Foreign affairs (1947) -- Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (1947) -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization charter (1949) -- Dean Acheson's "Perimeter" speech (1950) -- NSC 68 (1950) -- Domino Theory (1954) -- John Foster Dulles's "Massive retaliation" speech (1954) -- Final declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina : the Geneva Accords (1954) -- President Dwight Eisenhower's "Military-industrial complex" speech (1961) -- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) -- UN Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) -- Nixon Doctrine (1969) -- Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (1970) -- Pentagon Papers (1971) -- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (1972) -- Antiballistic Missle Treaty (1972) -- Shanghai communiqué (1972) -- War Powers Resolution (1973) -- Camp David Accords (1978) -- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (1979) -- Taiwan Relations Act (1979) -- President Ronald Reagan's SDI/Grenada Speech (1983) -- Tower Report on the Iran-Contra Scandal (1987) -- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (1991) -- North American Free Trade Association (1994) -- World Trade Organization (1994) -- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1996) -- President George W. Bush's War on terrorism speech (2001) -- 6. Directory of organizations -- Nongovernmental organizations -- Governmental organizations -- Web addresses for governmental organizations -- 7. Selected print and nonprint resources -- Print resources -- Nonprint resources -- Commercial media -- Index -- About the author.
Subject National security -- United States.
National security.
United States.
United States -- Military policy.
Military policy.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
World politics.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
International relations.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Chronological Term 1989-
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 1576075982 hardcover alkaline paper