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Pearson And Canadas Role In Nuclear Disarmament And Arms Control Negotiations 1945 1957
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Book Synopsis Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957 by : Joseph Levitt
Download or read book Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957 written by Joseph Levitt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations Joseph Levitt traces the history of these negotiations from the Canadian diplomatic perspective. He analyses the various proposals and documents the reactions of Pearson and his colleagues. Levitt reveals Pearson's own view of the strategic stalemate between the USSR and the United States -- Pearson did not believe that an open and liberal society such as the United States would ever launch an unprovoked offensive on the USSR; he thought instead that the danger of a major military confrontation arose only from the possibility that the Soviet Union might attack. Consequently the main thrust of Canadian diplomatic activity in these negotiations was not prevention of an American arms build-up but support of a strategy which would compel the USSR to accept an agreement that would benefit the Americans militarily or, failing that, to hold the Soviets responsible for the impasse in the talks and thus win the all-important propaganda war.
Book Synopsis Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957 by : Joseph Levitt
Download or read book Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957 written by Joseph Levitt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lester Pearson was Minister for External Affairs between 1948 and 1957. During this time Canada was a member of two successive United Nations commissions on eliminating or controlling nuclear arms with the United States and the Soviet Union as the main negotiators. The goal of these discussions was to reach an agreement on general principles that reflected the strategic needs of each side, rather than on the technical details necessary for a treaty. While the United States and the Soviet Union played the largest role in the negotiations, two other major powers, Britain and France, allies of the Americans, were also at the bargaining table. Canada was the only middle power to participate in all negotiations.
Book Synopsis The Nuclear North by : Susan Colbourn
Download or read book The Nuclear North written by Susan Colbourn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of nuclear weapons for their own security? Should Canadian-produced nuclear technologies be exported? What about the impact of atomic research on local communities and the environment? This incisive nuclear history engages with much larger debates about national identity, Canadian foreign policy contradictions during the Cold War, and Canada’s global standing to investigate these critical questions.
Book Synopsis Political Fallout by : Toshihiro Higuchi
Download or read book Political Fallout written by Toshihiro Higuchi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises—radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War—and the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, scattering a massive amount of radioactivity across the globe. The scale of contamination was so vast, and radioactive decay so slow, that the cumulative effect on humans and the environment is still difficult to fully comprehend. The international debate over nuclear fallout turned global radioactive contamination into an environmental issue, eventually leading the nuclear superpowers to sign the landmark Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963. Bringing together environmental history and Cold War history, Toshihiro Higuchi argues that the PTBT, originally proposed as an arms control measure, transformed into a dual-purpose initiative to check the nuclear arms race and radioactive pollution simultaneously. Higuchi draws on sources in English, Russian, and Japanese, considering both the epistemic differences that emerged in different scientific communities in the 1950s and the way that public consciousness around the risks of radioactive fallout influenced policy in turn. Political Fallout addresses the implications of science and policymaking in the Anthropocene—an era in which humans are confronting environmental changes of their own making.
Book Synopsis Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 2 by : John Hilliker
Download or read book Canada's Department of External Affairs, Volume 2 written by John Hilliker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-04-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, with its own minister for the first time, the Department of External Affairs embarked on a period of impressive growth and assumed responsibility for a broader range of foreign policy issues than ever before. Under the expert guidance of Lester Pearson, for a decade the department enjoyed popular and parliamentary consensus about international interests. The election of the Diefenbaker government in 1957 deprived the department of Pearson's experienced ministerial direction and exposed it to new priorities and new ways of doing things. At this time foreign policy consensus began to erode. As well, there was pressure to respond to the administrative revolution inaugurated by the Royal Commission on Government Organization (the Glassco Commission) appointed in 1960. After Pearson returned to office as prime minister in 1963, questioning by the public, and also by the governing party and the cabinet, became more fervent. Coming of Age concludes in 1968 as indications of a challenge to the principles underlying Canadian foreign policy emerged from a new generation of ministers, a challenge that would produce major changes after Pierre Trudeau became prime minister.
Book Synopsis At Home and Abroad by : Patrick Lennox
Download or read book At Home and Abroad written by Patrick Lennox and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's relationship with the United States and its place in the world currently occupy distinct spheres in the minds of policymakers, intellectuals, and citizens. At home, Canada is thought to enjoy a "special" relationship with the United States; abroad, it occupies a place as the world's problem-solver and peacekeeper. Patrick Lennox analyzes six key events in the history of relations between the two countries to reveal the underlying connection between the Canada-US relationship and Canada's place in the world. The war in Afghanistan is but the latest in a series of paradoxical interactions between the two states abroad that has resulted from the hierarchy in Canada-US relations at home.
Book Synopsis Give Me Shelter by : Andrew Paul Burtch
Download or read book Give Me Shelter written by Andrew Paul Burtch and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when a nuclear weapon detonates nearby? During the early Cold War years of 1945-63, Civil Defence Canada and the Emergency Measures Organization planned for just such a disaster and encouraged citizens to prepare their families and their cities for nuclear war. By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil defence program was widely mocked, and the public was vastly unprepared for nuclear war. Canada’s civil defence program was born in the early Cold War, when fears of conflict between the superpowers ran high. Give Me Shelter features previously unreleased documents detailing Canada’s nuclear survival plans. Andrew Burtch reveals how the organization publicly appealed to citizens to prepare for disaster themselves -- from volunteering as air-raid wardens to building fallout shelters. This tactic ultimately failed, however, due to a skeptical populace, chronic underfunding, and repeated bureaucratic fumbling. Give Me Shelter exposes the challenges of educating the public in the face of the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. Give Me Shelter explains how governments and the public prepared for the unexpected. It is essential reading for historians, policymakers, and anybody interested in Canada’s Cold War home front.
Book Synopsis Essence of Indecision by : Patricia Mcmahon
Download or read book Essence of Indecision written by Patricia Mcmahon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nuclear issue was a minor political matter when John Diefenbaker became prime minister in 1957. By 1963, it served as a catalyst for his defeat, with many attributing his demise to the indecision with which he handled it. Patricia McMahon tells a more nuanced story in Essence of Indecision.
Book Synopsis The Politics of CANDU Exports by : Duane Bratt
Download or read book The Politics of CANDU Exports written by Duane Bratt and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive history of the export of CANDU reactors to date. A pressurized heavy water natural-uranium power reactor designed and marketed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, the CANDU reactor has played a significant part in Canada's international trade. In this history, Duane Bratt examines every CANDU sale, as well as some important unsuccessful sales attempts, from 1956 to the present. He also outlines the impact that changes in the international political climate, such as the creation and strengthening of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and the increasing importance of human rights and environmental protection, have had on CANDU exports over the last fifty years.
Book Synopsis Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union by : Jamie Glazov
Download or read book Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union written by Jamie Glazov and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glazov's new assessment of Western policies toward Khrushchev's Russia is critical to our understanding of present-day Russia, since Gorbachev's democratization, which led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, had its origins in the Khrushchev thaw.
Book Synopsis Learning to Love the Bomb by : Sean M. Maloney
Download or read book Learning to Love the Bomb written by Sean M. Maloney and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers controversial data and conclusions about Canada's management of nuclear weapons and of its image on the world stage; Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents from the 1950s and 1960s
Download or read book Warrior Nation written by Ian McKay and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2012 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ominous campaign to change a nation's definition of itself
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Book Synopsis Canada Et la Guerre Froide, 1943-1957 by : Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Download or read book Canada Et la Guerre Froide, 1943-1957 written by Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and published by Ministère des affaires étrangères et du commerce international = Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on Canada and the early Cold War emerges from a colloquium held in November 1997 to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of the 1st volume in the series Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER). Topics discussed include: relations between Canada, the great powers, and Germany; the Cold War in Asia; Canada and the United Nations (UN); the transition from World War II to the Cold War; Canada's contribution to the creation of a North-Atlantic Community; the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child; and, Canada's international economic relations.
Book Synopsis Cold War Canada by : Reginald Whitaker
Download or read book Cold War Canada written by Reginald Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was initiated in Canada in 1945 by the dramatic defection of Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet cipher clerk. This event marked the start of over four decades of muted conflict between the Soviet Union and the West and became a major element of public life in Canada. This book examines the response of the Canadian government to these events and the systematic repression of communists and the Left, directed at civil servants, scientists, trade unionists, and political activists. These campaigns were undertaken in a secrecy imposed by the government, and supported by the RCMP security services. It also discusses the development of Canada's Cold War policy, the emergence of the new security state, and the deepening political alignment of Canada with the United States.
Download or read book Peace Psychology Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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