Pearson and Canada's Role in Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control Negotiations, 1945-1957McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1993 - 333 من الصفحات 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. |
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Pearson on the Superpower Confrontation | 43 |
Canada and the Baruch Plan 19454675 | 75 |
Defending the Baruch Plan | 107 |
The Erosion of the Majority Plan 195053 | 137 |
Narrowing the Gap between East and West 195455 | 166 |
Working to Maintain FrancoAmerican Harmony | 192 |
The Nuclear Test | 225 |
Conclusion | 264 |
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accept aerial inspection agreed agreement allies Anglo-French April armaments armed forces arms control arms race Assembly atomic bombs atomic energy atomic weapons attack Baruch Plan believed Britain Canada Canadian diplomats Cold War Committee communist concessions continued control of atomic conventional arms conventional forces countries debate defence delegate disarmament and arms Disarmament Commission discussions Eisenhower European External Affairs fissionable materials France French German reunification Gromyko Holmes hydrogen bomb Ibid India insisted international control issue June Khrushchev Lester Pearson limitation Majority Plan March McNaughton meeting memorandum ment military Moch NATO nuclear arms nuclear tests nuclear weapons peace political position possible programme prohibition of atomic propaganda reduction resolution Robertson Russians Security Council side Soviet proposal Soviet Union St Laurent Stalin Stassen Statements and Speeches strategic sub-committee suggested superpowers tactical talks test ban tion Toronto treaty Truman United Kingdom United Nations USSR veto West Germany