Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. Special Relations?

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4. The Origins of a Crisis

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5. Chaos and Confusion — Allies in Trouble

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6. A Crisis Explained

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7. Finding a Solution — The Nassau Compromise

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8. A New Foreign Policy Initiative — Are There Any Takers?

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9. Do or Die — The Making and Breaking of the Multilateral Nuclear Force

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10. Conclusion

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11. Back Matter

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Kennedy, Macmillan and Nuclear Weapons makes exhaustive use of newly-opened archive sources in a successful bid to offer an authoritative and compelling account of Anglo-American defence relations during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. This coherent and well-written survey presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis yet of Anglo-American relations during the early 1960s. Reserving special attention for those intriguing questions traditionally left unanswered by historians the author goes about a systematic review of the period and in the process comes to some remarkable conclusions.

• Anglo-American
• John F. Kennedy
• Kennedy, John F.

• University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

  Donette Murray

DONETTE MURRAY is a lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Ulster at Coleraine.

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