Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance

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ID4452925
AutoresMcgeorge Bundy, George F Kennan, Robert S Mcnamara (0009-0002-7143-2225), Gerard Smith
Ano1982
Volume60
Fascículo4
Páginas753
Data de publicação1982-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoForeign Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/20041171
OpenAlexW65169176
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas70

Te are four Americans who have been concerned over many years with the relation between nuclear weapons and the peace and freedom of the members of the Atlantic Alliance. Having learned that each of us separately has been coming to hold new views on this hard but vital question, we decided to see how far our thoughts, and the lessons of our varied experiences, could be put together; the essay that follows is the result. It argues that a new policy can bring great benefits, but it aims to start a discussion^ not to end it. For 33 years now, the Atlantic Alliance has relied on the asserted readiness of the United States to use nuclear weapons if necessary to repel aggression from the East. Initially, indeed, it was widely thought (notably by such great and different men as Winston Churchill and Niels Bohr) that the basic military balance in Europe was between American atomic bombs and the massive conventional forces of the Soviet Union. But the first Soviet explosion, in August 1949, ended the American monopoly only

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