The Key to Nuclear Restraint

The Swedish Plans to Acquire Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

Thomas Jonter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

293 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-84532-3 (ISBN)

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Why have some nations acquired nuclear weapons while others have refrained from doing so? Most research related to this question has focused on states that have built nuclear weapons, yet little attention has been devoted to countries that have chosen nuclear restraint. This book analyzes Swedish plans to acquire nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Sweden was very close to putting a bomb together in 1960s but, for a number of reasons illuminated in this book, decision makers abandoned those plans and subsequently rose to become one of the most recognized players in the international game of disarmament. Thanks to the recent declassification of essential documentation in Sweden and United States, it is now possible to assemble a comprehensive analysis of the Swedish nuclear weapons program based on primary sources. This book presents that analysis, a unique perspective owing to the fact that nuclear development is a highly secretive activity in most countries – with non-existent orlimited access to state archives.

Thomas Jonter is Director of Stockholm University Graduate School of International Studies, Sweden, and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Economic History. He has been visiting scholar at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stanford University, and Cornell University. Professor Jonter is also chair of Swedish Pugwash and served as advisor to the Swedish delegation to the 2015 Review Conference to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at the United Nations in New York.

Introduction. - 1.The ideas to initiate a nuclear weapons program started to grow. - 2. The development of a latent capability of producing nuclear weapons, 1945–59. - 3. The United States and Sweden’s plans to acquire nuclear weapons, 1945-62. - 4. The political debate: 1954–60. - 5. Abandoning the nuclear weapons plans: 1961–75. - 6. Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 293 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Cold War • Disarmament • international • Nuclear Restraint • Nuclear War • nuclear weapons • Sweden
ISBN-10	1-349-84532-9 / 1349845329
ISBN-13	978-1-349-84532-3 / 9781349845323
Zustand	Neuware