Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: Us Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation

by John Krige

How America used its technological leadership in the 1950s and the 1960s to foster European collaboration and curb nuclear proliferation, with varying degrees of success.

In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.S. administrations were determined to prevent Western European countries from developing independent national nuclear weapons programs. To do so, the United States attempted to use its technological pre-eminence as a tool of "soft power"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262034778
• ISBN13: 9780262034777
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher