Preserving the Global Nuclear Order
The Trident Agreements and the Arms Control Debate, 1977–1982
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12049567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Doyle (0000-0002-4803-4782, Dokuz Eylül University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1174-1190 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0707-5332 • E-ISSN: 1949-6540 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07075332.2018.1430047 |
| OpenAlex | W2790379681 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The Trident negotiations were a pivotal moment in establishing the US–UK nuclear relationship as an accepted element of the global nuclear order. The Trident agreements marked the first supply of a US delivery system to the UK since the signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the development of Superpower arms control. In turn, the development of these agendas in the international sphere influenced Anglo-American discussions on the replacement to Polaris. The Carter White House procrastinated on the provision of Trident due in part to their concerns over the political ramifications for their wider non-proliferation and arms control goals. However, fortuitously for the UK's nuclear programme, US–UK discussions on the replacement to Polaris coalesced with the reorientation of US foreign policy towards containment of the Soviet Union under Jimmy Carter and then Ronald Reagan – enabling the finalisation of the sale of Trident to the UK. As such, the status of the US–UK nuclear relationship as a broadly accepted element of the global nuclear order is a legacy of the ‘long 1970s’ alongside the early Cold War
Archaeology · Arms control · Business · Element (criminal law · International trade · Negotiation · Nuclear weapon · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Superpower · Treaty · Trident · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Space exploration and regulation
Exchanging Nuclear Secrets
Conflict and Cooperation in Intra-Alliance Nuclear Politics
The British nuclear experience
Bad Strategy and Bomber Dreams
British Nuclear Doctrine
Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality
The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4
The Making of an Accidental Crisis
Germany and the Politics of the Neutron Bomb, 1975–1979
Killing the MLF? The Wilson government and nuclear sharing in Europe, 1964-66
Helmut Schmidt and the Shaping of Western Security in the Late 1970s
Strategies of Inhibition
Britain and the chevaline project
Antelope, Poseidon or a Hybrid
Forward-Based Nuclear Weapons and Salt I
The Reagan Reversal
Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century
Nuclear diplomacy and the special relationship
Losing an empire, finding a role
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