What is it about?
This is a detailed analysis of the intricate and sensitive talks on atomic power between the two closest allies during the Cold War and at a time when nuclear proliferation was only an issue within the confines of the Western alliance.
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Why is it important?
At the time of publication, this research was based on recently released archival evidence in the US and the UK. It gave detailed insights in the tensse negotations about nuclear secrets that the US was prepared to share with its closest ally only to a degree , and very reluctantly.
Perspectives
This article was published in Contemporary Record, renamed "Contemporary British History" in 1996. The article was a chapter in my doctoral dissertation, "The Struggle for Nuclear Partnership: the Making of an Ambiguous Alliance, 1952-1959. Interestingly, at the time of this research I did not yet define this project as one on science diplomacy. It is definitely how I would have labelled it today.
Jan Melissen
Leiden University and University of Antwerp
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This page is a summary of: The restoration of the nuclear alliance: Great Britain and atomic negotiations with the United States, 1957–58, Contemporary Record, June 1992, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13619469208581200.
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