This project concerns the politics and diplomacy of the American proposal to create a NATO multilateral nuclear fleet in the early 1960s and deals with the themes that emerge during its consideration within the Alliance. The Multilateral Force represented an American attempt to solve the 'nuclear dilemma' which statesmen and strategists believed would confront NATO following the end of the Eisenhower Administration. Western European allies increasingly pressed Washington to include the rest of NATO in the nuclear defense of Europe. The American answer was a plan to create a fleet of ships, bearing Polaris ballistic missiles carrying nuclear weapons, manned by multinational crews, and under NATO command and control. The Multilateral Force received significant attention in NATO circles throughout the first half of the 1960s, yet very little has been published on the proposed missile fleet. This account rests on archival research undertaken at the Public Records Office in London and the National Archives II in College Park, Maryland, and is the first study to make use of these recently declassified documents. Its purpose is to present an updated account of the international politics and diplomacy attending the Multilateral Force scheme, to show that these negotiations portray why the NATO alliance remained healthy, and to suggest its contribution to the outcome of the Cold War.
Multilateral Force: America's Nuclear Solution for NATO (1960-1965)
1999
159 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Nuclear Warfare , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Education, Law, & Humanities , International Relations , Nuclear weapons , Nato , Political alliances , Fleets(Ships) , Europe , Policies , Political science , Defense systems , International politics , Command and control systems , Cold war , Fleet ballistic missiles , Negotiations
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