nuclear diplomacy in unequal conflicts : the United States and China, 1950-1958 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Appu K. Soman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Westport, Conn. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Praeger,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xii, 258 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Praeger studies in diplomacy and strategic thought,
ISSN of Series
1076-1543
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting the Stage; 3 The Limits of Nuclear Coercion: Nuclear Diplomacy in the Korean War; 4 A ''Rash and Quixotic Policy'': The Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1954 1955; 5 ''Who's Daddy'' in the Taiwan Strait? The Offshore Islands Crisis of 1958; 6 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This work explores the efficacy of nuclear diplomacy and the consequences of American nuclear-brinkmanship, via a study of the political and diplomatic role of America's nuclear capabilities in conflicts with a non-nuclear China during the Korean War and the Taiwan Strait Crises.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.