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The Nuclear Club
How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
Jonathan R. Hunt

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Contents
Introduction: The Most Exclusive Club on Earth
1 "Peace That Is No Peace": Revolution and Reaction After Hiroshima, 1945–1955
2 "Uncontrollable Anarchy": Founding the Nuclear Club, 1956–1961
3 The Atomic Frontier: John F. Kennedy and Nuclear Containment, 1960–1962
4 Pax Nuclearis: Khrushchev, Kennedy, Mao, and the Moscow Treaty, 1962–1963
5 An "Impossible Possibility": Lyndon Johnson and the Nonproliferation Treaty That Failed, 1963–1965
6 "This Side of the Angels": LBJ, Vietnam, and Nuclear Peace, 1964–1966
7 "Tall Oaks from Little Acorns": Making the Treaty of Tlatelolco, 1963–1967
8 "A Citadel of Learning": Building an International Community, 1966–1968
9 "A Decent Level of International Law and Order": Final Negotiations for the NPT, 1967–1970
Conclusion: Saving Humanity from Itself