TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blades,David M.
AU  - Siracusa,Joseph M.
TI  - A History of U. S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945-1963
T2  - Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies Series
SN  - 9781442232013
AV  - U264.3 .B53 2014 
U1  - 623.4/51190287 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Testing -- History
KW  - Nucear weapons -- Government policy -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Glossary -- Preface -- Chapter One: Truman, 1945-1952 -- Chapter Two: The Normalization of Nuclear Testing -- Chapter Three: Eisenhower, 1952-1958 -- Chapter Four: The Expansion and Suspension of Nuclear Testing -- Chapter Five: Kennedy, 1961-1963 -- Chapter Six: The Limitations of Nuclear Testing -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors
N2  - As states continue to pursue nuclear weaponry, nuclear testing remains an important political issue in the twenty-first century. This survey examines how and why the U.S. conducted nuclear tests from 1945 through 1963 and the resulting influence on key questions from normalization and de-normalization up to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963
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ER  -