Double-Edged Sword Nuclear Diplomacy in Unequal Conflicts the United States and China, 1950-1958
- List Price: $138.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
An examination of the political and diplomatic role of American nuclear weapons in conflicts with non-nuclear China in the Korean War and the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954-1955 and 1958, this study analyzes the American tendency to become involved in confrontations with far weaker powers over issues of very little strategic significance to the United States. Unlike works on nuclear history that have either focused on superpower nuclear conflicts or those that have focused merely on the outcomes of nuclear threats against non-nuclear powers, this book considers in depth American nuclear diplomacy toward China during the whole period of Sino-American military confrontations.
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