Author: Diana JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cruise missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Politics of Euromissiles
Author: Diana JohnstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cruise missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Politics of the Euromissiles
Author: Diana JohnstonePublisher: Schocken Books
ISBN: 9780805272086
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Euromissiles
Author: Susan ColbournPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150176604X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war—highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. That made European leaders uncomfortable and pushed fearful masses into the streets demanding peace in their time. At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, the member states were riven by the missile issue. This strategic crisis was, as much as any summit meeting between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the hinge on which the Cold War turned. Euromissiles is a history of diplomacy and alliances, social movements and strategy, nuclear weapons and nagging fears, and politics. To tell that history, Colbourn takes a long view of the strategic crisis—from the emerging dilemmas of allied defense in the early 1950s through the aftermath of the INF Treaty thirty-five years later. The result is a dramatic and sweeping tale that changes the way we think about the Cold War and its culmination.
The Euromissile Crisis and the End of the Cold War
Author: Leopoldo NutiPublisher: Cold War International History
ISBN: 9780804792868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the late 1970s, new generations of nuclear delivery systems were proposed for deployment across Eastern and Western Europe. The ensuing controversy grew to become a key phase in the late Cold War. This book explores the origins, unfolding, and consequences of that crisis. Contributors from international relations, political science, sociology, and history draw on extensive research in a number of countries, often employing declassified documents from the West and from the newly opened state and party archives of many Soviet bloc countries. They cover especially Soviet-Warsaw Pact relations, U.S.-NATO relations, and the role of public opinion worldwide in relation to the crisis.
The Soviet Union and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1969–87
Author: Jonathan HaslamPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349200107
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A comprehensive study of the reasons for the Soviet deployment of the SS-20 missile in the 1970s and the reasons why they agreed to eliminate it in the 1987 INF Treaty. In the process, Haslam examines the evolution of Soviet foreign and defence policy towards Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.
Euromissiles
Author: Susan ColbournPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150176604X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war—highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. That made European leaders uncomfortable and pushed fearful masses into the streets demanding peace in their time. At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, the member states were riven by the missile issue. This strategic crisis was, as much as any summit meeting between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the hinge on which the Cold War turned. Euromissiles is a history of diplomacy and alliances, social movements and strategy, nuclear weapons and nagging fears, and politics. To tell that history, Colbourn takes a long view of the strategic crisis—from the emerging dilemmas of allied defense in the early 1950s through the aftermath of the INF Treaty thirty-five years later. The result is a dramatic and sweeping tale that changes the way we think about the Cold War and its culmination.
War by Other Means
Author: Jeffrey HerfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
NATO's decision to deploy nuclear weapons - the Euromissiles - in Western Europe in 1983 met fierce opposition from the European left. This book argues that many of the left-wing organizations in West Germany were motivated by Soviet propaganda, and that Kohl's success in having the missiles deployed was an important victory over the Soviets and their supporters, and confirmed the link between West German democrats and the the democratic regime of the USA and Western Europe.
The Soviet Union and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1969-87
Author: Jonathan HaslamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333388969
Category : Intermediate-range ballistic missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The Soviet Union and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1969-87
Author: Jonathan HaslamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780801496165
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Traces the evolution and growing sophistication of Soviet foreign policy in a region of importance not only for the USSR, but also for the West. Haslam (research fellow in politics, Cambridge U.) traces Soviet strategy and diplomacy from the nine years preceding the Soviet Union's deployment of SS-20 missiles in Europe in 1977-78, amid public alarm and protest, through the ratification of the INF arms-reduction treaty with the US in 1987, up to the Soviet's liquidation of their SS-20 stockpile. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Politics of European Defense Cooperation
Author: David GarnhamPublisher: Ballinger Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description