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Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture
Grégoire Mallard
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Description for Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture
Hardcover. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing a nuclear war, and this is partly due to the various treaties signed in the 1960s forswearing the use of nuclear technology for military purposes. The author seeks to understand why some nations agreed to these limitations of their sovereign will - and why others decidedly did not. Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 12 tables. BIC Classification: JPSF; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis - a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing such catastrophe, and this is partly due to the various treaties signed in the 1960s forswearing the use of nuclear technology for military purposes. In Fallout, Gregoire Mallard seeks to understand why some nations agreed to these limitations of their sovereign will - and why others decidedly did not. He builds his investigation around the 1968 signing of the Nuclear ... Read more
Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis - a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing such catastrophe, and this is partly due to the various treaties signed in the 1960s forswearing the use of nuclear technology for military purposes. In Fallout, Gregoire Mallard seeks to understand why some nations agreed to these limitations of their sovereign will - and why others decidedly did not. He builds his investigation around the 1968 signing of the Nuclear ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226157894
SKU
V9780226157894
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About Grégoire Mallard
Gregoire Mallard is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Reviews for Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture
"This brilliant book should be of wide interest to students of government, politics, sociology, and law, as well as to high-level policy makers and the general public concerned with nuclear nonproliferation and problems of global governance. Mallard draws deftly on a wealth of primary and secondary sources to provide us with a lucid and captivating account of the centrality of ... Read more