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Nuclear North: Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 266 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 400 g
  • Serija: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Mar-2021
  • Leidėjas: University of British Columbia Press
  • ISBN-10: 0774863986
  • ISBN-13: 9780774863988
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 266 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 400 g
  • Serija: The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
  • Išleidimo metai: 24-Mar-2021
  • Leidėjas: University of British Columbia Press
  • ISBN-10: 0774863986
  • ISBN-13: 9780774863988
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Canada is a nuclear nation, but the country does not have the ultimate symbol of nuclear power: a weapons program of its own. 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.

The Nuclear North investigates critical questions in these ongoing debates. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of using nuclear weapons for their own security? Should Canadian-produced nuclear technologies be sold on the export market to potential arms dealers? Does the country&;s championing of global disarmament matter? What about the domestic costs of nuclear technologies and atomic research, including their impact on local communities and the environment?

The contributors to this important collection explore Canada&;s relationship with nuclear weapons and other nuclear technologies over the course of the Cold War and beyond. They consider how the atomic age has shaped Canadian policies at home and abroad, and in doing so engage in much larger debates about national identity, contradictions at the heart of the country&;s Cold War foreign policy, and Canada&;s place in the international order.

Recenzijos

"This superb book brilliantly links the domestic to the global and brings together Canadian politics, trade, science, medicine, and the environment. The Nuclear North provides many new insights and is simply a pleasure to read."Isabel Campbell, Department of National Defence, Ottawa "This impressive and attractive volumes insights concerning nuclear weapons and nuclear energy in post-war Canada blend political, military, intellectual, and economic history to deliver an accounting of how the atom and its children affected generations of policy makers, pundits, and the public."Andrew Burtch, Canadian War Museum This superb book brilliantly links the domestic to the global and brings together Canadian politics, trade, science, medicine, and the environment. The Nuclear North provides many new insights and is simply a pleasure to read. -- Isabel Campbell, Department of National Defence, Ottawa This impressive and attractive volumes insights concerning nuclear weapons and nuclear energy in post-war Canada blend political, military, intellectual, and economic history to deliver an accounting of how the atom and its children affected generations of policy makers, pundits, and the public. -- Andrew Burtch, Canadian War Museum

Daugiau informacijos

The Nuclear North investigates Canadas place in the grey area between nuclear and non-nuclear to explore how this has shaped Canadians understanding of their country and its policies.
Foreword vii
Robert Bothwell
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Nuclear If Necessary, but Not Necessarily Nuclear 3(14)
Susan Colbourn
PART 1 A SEAT AT THE TABLE
1 Very Close Together: Balancing Canadian Interests on Atomic Energy Control, 1945-46
17(23)
Katie Davis
2 "We Do Not Wish to Be Obstructionist": How Canada Took and Kept a Seat on NATO's Nuclear Planning Group
40(27)
Timothy Andrews Sayle
PART 2 POLITICAL POWDERKEGS
3 Howard Green, Disarmament, and Canadian-American Defence Relations, 1959-63: "A Queer, Confused World"
67(21)
Michael D. Stevenson
4 Neutralism, Nationalism, and Nukes, Oh My! Revisiting Peacemaker or Powder-Monkey and Canadian Strategy in the Nuclear Age
88(21)
Asa McKercher
5 The Road to Scarborough: Lester Pearson and Nuclear Weapons, 1954-63
109(24)
Jack Cunningham
PART 3 IN SEARCH OF NUCLEAR TASKS AT HOME AND ABROAD
6 Who's Going to Invade Arctic Canada, Anyway? Debating the Acquisition of the Nuclear Submarine in the 1980s
133(20)
Susan Colbourn
7 "Baptism by Fire": Canadian Soldiers and Radiation Exposure at Nevada and Maralinga
153(28)
Matthew S. Wiseman
PART 4 IMPORTING BY ACCIDENT, EXPORTING BY DESIGN
8 A Northern Nuclear Nightmare? Operation Morning Light and the Recovery of Cosmos 954 in the Northwest Territories, 1978
181(26)
Ryan Dean
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
9 Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards: The Transformation of Canadian Nuclear Policy toward Argentina and South Korea after India's 1974 Nuclear Test
207(20)
Se Young Jang
Conclusion: Nuclear Victorians 227(7)
Timothy Andrews Sayle
Contributors 234(3)
Index 237
Susan Colbourn is a post-doctoral fellow in international security studies at Yale University. Her research has also appeared in Cold War History and the International History Review, among other publications. Timothy Andrews Sayle is an assistant professor of history and director of the International Relations Program at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order.

Contributors: Jack Cunningham, Katie Davis, Ryan Dean, Se Young Jang, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Asa McKercher, Michael D. Stevenson, and Matthew S. Wiseman