Euromissiles by Susan Colbourn

Euromissiles by Susan Colbourn

In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles—intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war—highlighted how the peoples of Europe were dangerously placed between hammer and anvil. That made European leaders uncomfortable and pushed fearful masses into the streets demanding peace in their time. At the center of the story is NATO. Colbourn highlights the weakness of the alliance seen by many as the most effective bulwark against Soviet aggression. Divided among themselves and uncertain about the depth of US support, the member states were riven by the missile issue. This strategic crisis was, as much as any summit meeting between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the hinge on which the Cold War turned. Euromissiles is a history of diplomacy and alliances, social movements and strategy, nuclear weapons and nagging fears, and politics. To tell that history, Colbourn takes a long view of the strategic crisis—from the emerging dilemmas of allied defense in the early 1950s through the aftermath of the INF Treaty thirty-five years later. The result is a dramatic and sweeping tale that changes the way we think about the Cold War and its culmination.

Susan Colbourn has written a truly international history of what has become known as "the Euromissile crisis" to explain why NATO did not collapse under the weight of these eventsColbourn's book is an exemplary study of contemporary history. Reading Colbourn's book offers a useful analytical antidote.

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Susan Colbourn is Associate Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the coeditor of The Nuclear North. Follow her on X @secolbourn.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781501766022
ISBN 10	1501766023
Titel	Euromissiles
Autor	Susan Colbourn
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-11-15
Seitenanzahl	408
Preise	Short-listed for Center for Presidential History Book Prize (United States).
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.