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By Shane J. Maddock

ISBN-10: 080783355X

ISBN-13: 9780807833551

ISBN-10: 146961393X

ISBN-13: 9781469613932

After international battle II, an atomic hierarchy emerged within the noncommunist global. Washington used to be on the best, through the years by way of its NATO allies after which Israel, with the postcolonial international thoroughly close out. An Indian diplomat referred to as the process "nuclear apartheid."

Drawing on lately declassified assets from U.S. and overseas records, Shane Maddock bargains the 1st full-length examine of nuclear apartheid, casting a focus on an ideological outlook that nurtured atomic inequality and verified the United States--in its personal mind--as the main valid nuclear energy. starting with the invention of fission in 1939 and finishing with George W. Bush's nuclear coverage and his preoccupation with the "axis of evil," Maddock uncovers the deeply ideological underpinnings of U.S. nuclear policy--an ideology in accordance with American exceptionalism, irrational religion within the energy of know-how, and racial and gender stereotypes. The unintentional results of the nuclear exclusion of countries comparable to North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran is, more and more, uprising.

Here is an illuminating examine how an American nuclear coverage in accordance with inaccurate ideological ideals has by accident lead the way for a world "wild west" of nuclear improvement, dramatically undercutting the target of nuclear containment and diminishing U.S. impact within the world.

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