Titlebook: Kennedy, Macmillan and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961-63; Kendrick Oliver Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publish

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Introduction,can be considered definitive. Indeed, none has so far aspired to be definitive. This is hardly surprising. Even at the time of writing, more than thirty years after the test-ban agreement, the archival record remains incomplete. If the bulk of British government material is now available, it is doub

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Conception and Stalemate: the Test-Ban Debate, March 1954 to August 1961,ide the principal axis of Cold War diplomacy. Following a massive American H-bomb explosion in March 1954, a Japanese fishing ship, the ., had been showered in fallout, and the resulting fatality and illnesses had highlighted the physiological hazards which accompanied such experiments.. The only co

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,Progress to the Proving Grounds: August–December 1961,e was bitterly disappointed by the Soviet decision and seemed almost to view it as a personal violation. When two of his advisers suggested to him that, by acting with restraint, the United States might exploit Soviet tests for propaganda purposes, Kennedy was unimpressed: ‘They just kicked me in th

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,‘The “Two-Pronged Approach”’: December 1961 to April 1962,h permission to use Christmas Island for atmospheric tests. Once that permission had been obtained, the Americans could press forward with their preparations. However, Kennedy’s mission in Bermuda, and the preparations that would ensue if it was successful, did not imply Presidential commitment to a

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,The Advance of the Neutrals: April–October 1962,DC.. In the preceding days, Western representatives had carefully canvassed neutral colleagues in an attempt to gauge their likely reaction to the start of US tests, discouraging any walkout and massaging protests down to a less emotional pitch.. Although uncertain at the start of the meeting that s

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,‘The Good Season’: October 1962 to March 1963,the Cuban Missile Crisis.. There had been, he noted, ‘a distinct rise in cordiality in the attitude of the staff of the Soviet Embassy here towards their Western colleagues’. At one cocktail party, the Soviets had proved to be ‘quite exceptionally affable’, and had also ‘gone to a good deal of troub

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